Quotes From "Tomorrows Eve" By Villiers De LIsleAdam

I have come with this message: since our gods and...
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I have come with this message: since our gods and our aspirations are no longer anything but scientific, why shouldn't our loves be so too? Villiers De LIsleAdam
Within this new work of art a creature from beyond...
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Within this new work of art a creature from beyond the reach of Humanity has insinuated herself and now lurks there at the heart of the mystery, a power unimagined before our time. Villiers De LIsleAdam
Brunettes are full of electricity.
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Brunettes are full of electricity. Villiers De LIsleAdam
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There are even some stars so remote that their light will reach the Earth only when Earth itself is a dead planet, as they themselves are dead, so that the living Earth will never be visited by that forlorn ray of light, without a living source, without a living destination. Often on fine nights when the park of this establishment is vacant, I amuse myself with this marvelous instrument (telescope). I go upstairs, walk across the grass, sit on a bench in the Avenue of Oaks — and there, in my solitude, I enjoy the pleasure of weighing the rays of dead stars. Villiers De LIsleAdam
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Thoughts and feelings change sometimes, as one crosses the frontiers. Villiers De LIsleAdam
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Dead voices, lost sounds, forgotten noises, vibrations lockstepping into the abyss and now too distant ever to be recaptured!. .. What sort of arrows would be able to transfix such birds? Villiers De LIsleAdam
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And in any case...there are no more supernatural noises nowadays... Villiers De LIsleAdam