“I think, in art, it is as noble a thing as to to try to make people happy, to help them escape, as it is to make them think. And perhaps more difficult.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“That spring was the start of everything, for me. Before then, I might have been half-asleep, drifting through life.”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
“people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth.”
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“With the candles on the table, the space becomes a luminous cocoon”
― The Invitation
― The Invitation
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