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“The memory of my name will last longer than the lives of many men.”
― House of Names
― House of Names
“He stopped going to his own bed, waiting instead until Leander was ready for bed and then going to the room with him, the dog once more in his wake. He began to look forward to the night, to what happened between them in these hours, and to the morning when they woke.”
― House of Names
― House of Names
“Even in times of the most entrenched rationalism, there lives in every man a little Alexander who never managed to conquer his Eudaimon Arabia.”
― Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
― Arabia Felix: The Danish Expedition of 1761-1767
“Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
― Night Train to Lisbon
“We live in a strange time,’ Electra said. ‘A time when the gods are fading. Some of us still see them but there are times when we don’t. Their power is waning. Soon, it will be a different world. It will be ruled by the light of day. Soon it will be a world barely worth inhabiting. You should feel lucky that you were touched by the old world, that in that house it brushed you with its wings.”
― House of Names
― House of Names
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Classics, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Historical fiction, History, Poetry, Romance, Thriller, and lgbt
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