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To come is easy and takes hours; to go is different—and may take centuries.

— Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow (1895)

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Come and see my rose-coloured bath full of death!

The King in Yellow (1895)

The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts.

The King in Yellow (1895)

Songs that the Hyades shall sing,
Where flap the tatters of the King,
Must die unheard in
Dim Carcosa.

I pray God will curse the writer, as the writer has cursed the world with its beautiful stupendous creation, terrible in its simplicity, irresistible in its truth—a world which now trembles before the King In Yellow.

The King in Yellow (1895)

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