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“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Everyone loves a conspiracy.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“cubitum eamus”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.”
― Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death; or else hate me and still come with me. and hating me through death and after. There is no such word as indifference in my apathetic nature.”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“Oh captain my captain”
― Walt Whitman

“Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming, gotta do more, gotta be more!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“One reads poetry because he is the member of the human race and the human race is filled with passion! Medicine, law, banking- these are the necessary components to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty? These are what we stay alive for!”
― N.H Kleinbaum, Tom Schulman

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“I am made of memories.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde