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"Tis true, there's magic in the web of it" - Othello. Act IV Sc.iv
"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." - All's Well that Ends Well. Act IV Sc. iii
"Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?" - Richard III. Act I, Scene 3 
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." - Margaret Fuller 

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"what I hear is the murmur / Of underground streams, what I see is a limestone landscape" - W.H Auden
"in hollow halls beneath the fells" - J.R.Tolkien
"A secret system of caves and conduits"  - W.H Auden
"Leaning out over / The dreadful precipice, / One contemptuous tree." - W.H Auden
"Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth" - Sir Thomas Browne
"Through caverns measureless to man" - Samual Taylor Coleridge
"Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep" - Matthew Arnold
"immeasurable halls, filled with an everlasting music of water that tinkles into pools" - J.R.Tolkien
"we should open up new ways, and display far chambers that are still dark, glimpsed only as a void beyond fissures in the rock" - J.R.Tolkien
"through its intricate tangle of rifts and chasms" - Mark Twain
"Deep was the cave; and downwards as it went / From the wide mouth, a rocky rough descent;" - Vergil
"Caves in the mountain, clefts in the wall, / My Father has to inspect them all!" - Ted Hughes 
"There is nothing more powerful than this attraction toward the abyss" - Jules Verne 
"It is a cavernous Earth of labyrinthine intricacy" - William Blake 
"The truth of nature lieth in certain deep mines and caves." - Democritus 
"The words which make up the human language are inadequate for those who venture into the depths of the earth." - Jules Verne 
"De profundis clamavi ad te Domine" - Psalm 129 
"The cave itself enters human awareness as soon as humans are aware of anything." - Walter Wright Arthen
"When I enter a cave, I go to the deep heart of the matter." - Walter Wright Arthen 
"There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth ... that never was seen, nor never shall be" - Joseph Hall
"It is a good thing ... to creep like worms into dark holes and caverns underground" - John Muir 
"They wound this way and that, far down into the secret depths of the cave" - Mark Twain
"There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man" - Johnny Cash
"being practiced in maintaining himself on insubstantial ropes ... dancing even near abysses" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The descent to Avernus is easy; ... but to retrace one's steps and return to the upper air, that is the toil, that the difficulty." - Virgil
"tortuous caverns, and bottomless holes with endless ropes hanging down into them" - Mark Twain
"This cavern is in our parish, and you have no right to be here at all" - Thomas Hardy
"...Und im Abgrund wohnt die Wahrheit. (...and truth lies in the abyss.)" - J.C. Von Schiller
"The best parts are underground." - Francis Bacon
"I came to the entrance of a great cavern... two emotions suddenly arose in me, ... fear of the threatening dark cave, desire to see whether there are any marvelous thing within"- Leonardo da Vinci
"The world underground offered an infinite field of activity" - Felix Nadar
"a tangled wilderness of narrow and lofty clefts and passages" - Mark Twain
"The door of the cavern was big enough to roll a hogshead in" - Mark Twain
"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." - Joseph Campbell
"the awful gloom of this doomed cavern" - Seneca 
"a tangled wilderness of narrow and lofty clefts and passages" - Mark Twain
"It was an easy place to get lost in; anybody could do it - including the bats" - Mark Twain
"And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep" - Luke 8:31
"Who shall descend into the deep?" - Romans 10:7
"And out of the cleft came swarming a loathsome mob" - Robert E. Howard
"Many caves in these hills ... are but doors to greater caves which lie beneath" - Robert E. Howard
"a network of subterranean corridors which honeycombed the hills" - Robert E. Howard
"A life in caves and holes, where the rays of the sun do not enter, may perhaps tend to longevity" - Francis Bacon
"Leave the halls and caverns deep" - J.R. Tolkein
"The nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of eyes that see; for their marvels are strange and terrific" - J.P. Lovecraft
"The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone." - Lucretius
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"If you stare into the Abyss long enough the Abyss stares back at you" - Friedrich Nietzsche
"No solitude is comparable to the bowels of the earth, no night so dark as the blackness underground." - Norbert Casteret
"...without thought of the abysses into which my daring was soon about to plunge me." - Jules Verne
"All this country is hollow. Could you strike it with some gigantic hammer it would boom like a drum." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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"And this they wrote that another man wrote" - Rudyard Kipling
"Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors." - Trollope
"I wonder what kind of world it is where anyone can sing anyone else's song." - Frank McCourt
"Perish those who said our good things before we did." - Donatus
"Think not rashly to lay your thievish hands upon my works" - Albrect Du00fcrer
"If you cannot protect what you own, you don't own anything." - Jack Valenti