“But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved his
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
respectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he to
know that there was a soul before him that needed saving?”
― Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
“You must not be alone, for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
“No idea stays pure. Even the flowering of art isn't pure. And the sun has spots. All geniuses menstruate. On sorrow floats laughter. In the heart of roaring lurks silence. In angles lean compasses. -- But the circle, the circle is pure!”
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“Kάποιες φορές, αυτός που γίνεσαι πέφτοντας, ίσως σε σηκώσει.”
― Φ
― Φ
“But that happiness, no doubt, was a lie invented for the despair of all desire. She now knew the smallness of the passions that art exaggerated.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
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