Author: M.J Rose

Cites

• Victor Hugo (2)
  • IN: Seduction (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
    FROM: Les Miserables, (1862), Novel, France
  • IN: The Witch of Painted Sorrows (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What makes night within us may leave stars
    FROM: Ninety-Three, (1874), Novel, France
• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The Book of Lost Fragrances (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.
    FROM: Remembrance of Things Past, (1913), Novel, France
• Jane Macartney (1)
  • IN: The Book of Lost Fragrances (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: China Tells Living Buddhas To Obtain Permission Before They Reincarnate Beijing April 4, 2007 Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people. For the first time China has given the Government the power to ensure that no new living Buddha can be identified, sounding a possible death knell to a mystical system that dates back at least as far as the 12th century. China already insists that only the Government can approve the appointments of Tibet’s two most important monks, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama. The Dalai Lama’s announcement in May 1995 that a search inside Tibet… had identified the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, who died in 1989, enraged Beijing. The boy chosen by the Dalai Lama has disappeared.
    FROM: Excerpted from an article in the Times (UK) by Jane Macartney., (2007), Article, UK
• Carl Jung (2)
  • IN: The Book of Lost Fragrances (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
    FROM: Letter to Fanny Bowditch, (1916), Letter, Switzerland
  • IN: The Reincarnationist (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I simply believe that some part of the human self or soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.
    FROM: NULL, (1975), NULL, Switzerland
• H. G. Wells (1)
  • IN: The Collector of Dying Breaths (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You may think me superstitious, if you will, and foolish; but indeed, I am more than half convinced that he had, in truth, an abnormal gift, and a sense, something-I know not what-that in the guise of wall and door offered him an outlet, a secret and peculiar passage of escape into another and altogether more beautiful world.
    FROM: The Door in the Wall, (1911), Novel, UK
• Roberta Smith (1)
  • IN: The Hypnotist (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Often, in the cosseted quarters of a museum, we forget that every work of ancient art is a survivor, a representative of untold numbers of similar artworks that perished. This triumphant exhibition makes us remember, while demonstrating that every survivor saves much more than just itself: long strands of culture, identity and history waiting to be woven back together.
    FROM: Roberta Smith, writing in the New York Times about the exhibit Silent Survivors of Afghanistan’s 4,000 Tumultuous Years, (2008), Article, US
• Edgar Allan Poe (1)
  • IN: The Hypnotist (2007) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul
    FROM: Marginalia, (1844), Article, US
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: The Memorist (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Memory is then the key word which combines past and present, past and future.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Romania/US
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Memorist (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The souls must reenter the absolute from where they have emerged. They must develop all the perfections; the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another…until they have acquired the condition that fits them for reunion with God.
    FROM: Kabbalah (Zohar), (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Rudyard Kipling (1)
  • IN: The Reincarnationist (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?
    FROM: The Sack of the Gods, (1892), Poem, India/England
• Pablo Neruda (1)
  • IN: The Secret Language of Stones (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.
    FROM: Xvii (I Do Not Love You...), (1960), Poem, Chile