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Babel
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After all, we’re here to make the unknown known, to make the other familiar. We’re here to make magic with words.’
“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today’s young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“What you have told me is quite a romance, a romance of art one might call it, and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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