— Wu Den-yih Taiwanese politician 1948
Wu Den-yih (2016) cited in: " Ex-VP calls on China 'not to widen distance' with Taiwanese http://focustaiwan.tw/news/acs/201610030023.aspx" in Focus Taiwan, 3 October 2016.
— Natalie Clifford Barney writer and salonist 1876 - 1972
In "Samples from Almost Illegible Notebooks", ADAM International Review, No. 299 (1962)
— Mervyn Peake English writer, artist, poet and illustrator 1911 - 1968
Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 58 (p. 704)
— Henry Taylor English playwright and poet 1800 - 1886
Notes from Life (1853), Wisdom.
— Emil M. Cioran Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911 - 1995
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
— William Congreve, The Way of the World
The Way of the World (1700), Act III, scene xii
— Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales
Seven Gothic Tales (1934), "The Old Chevalier"
— Djuna Barnes, livro Nightwood
Nightwood (1936), Ch. 5 : Watchman, What of the Night?
— Robertson Davies Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist 1913 - 1995
The Golden Ass (1999)
— Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files
The Dresden Files, Changes (2010), Chapter 30
— Laura Riding Jackson poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901 - 1991
Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)
— Emil Nolde German artist 1867 - 1956
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