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“I love you,” I say to him, only it comes out, “Hey.”
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
“So damn much,” he says back, only it comes out, “Dude.”
He still won’t meet my eyes.”
― I'll Give You the Sun
“madam," the man cried, leaping to the ground, "you're hurt!" "I'm dead, sir!" she replied. A few minutes later, they became engaged.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.”
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“«Soy un soñador. Hay en mí tan poca vida real, los momentos como este, como el de ahora, son para mí tan raros que me es imposible no repetirlos en mis sueños. Voy a soñar con usted toda la noche, toda la semana, todo el año.»”
― Nietoschka Nezvanova / Noches Blancas
― Nietoschka Nezvanova / Noches Blancas
“there is about sorrow an intense, an extraordinary reality. I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. There is not a single wretched man in this wretched place along with me who does not stand in symbolic relation to the very secret of life. For the secret of life is suffering. It is what is hidden behind everything.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
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