“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the supermarket and feel absurd.”
― Howl and Other Poems
― Howl and Other Poems
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Everything is holy! everybody's holy! everywhere is holy! everyday is in eternity! Everyman's an angel!”
― Howl and Other Poems
― Howl and Other Poems
Chloe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Chloe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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