Thomas de Quincey byl anglický romantický filozof, prozaik, esejista a literární kritik.
„Velká čarodějka této generace.“
[(en) The great enchantress of that generation.]
(o Ann Radcliffové)
Zdroj: [Norton, Rictor, Mistress of Udolpho: the life of Ann Radcliffe, Continuum International Publishing Group, 1999, 8, anglicky]
„Vraždy mají své nepatrné odstíny v provedení …“
Zdroj: [Škvorecký, Josef, Josef Škvorecký, Josef Škvorecký, Nápady čtenáře detektivek, 1, Praha, Československý spisovatel, 1965, 163, 7. záhada zamčeného pokoje neboli jak se lidé vraždí, 123, Otázky a názory, 55, česky]
“Thou hast the keys of Paradise, oh just, subtle, and mighty opium!”
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"A Second Paper on Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" (1839). Source: Thomas de Quincy. On Murder (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2006), 84
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
Pt. I.
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“Everlasting farewells! and again, and yet again reverberated—everlasting farewells!”
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“A promise is binding in the inverse ratio of the numbers to whom it is made.”
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Pt. II, Recalling the day in 1804 when he first took opium.
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“In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.”
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