“You're a baby, said Robert. You've been asleep all your life. It's time to wake up. Why do you think they give you charity, you and the children? Because they think you are harmless, your eyes aren't opened, you don't see the truth around you.”
― Life & Times of Michael K
― Life & Times of Michael K
“I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer by.”
― The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
“I know it's nothing to you, but I was from a place, America, where cruelty toward humans who loved as their deepest instincts instructed was a kind of law.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“And, though my faith be broken,
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring as token
That I am happy now! --
Behold the golden token
That proves me happy now!”
― The Complete Poetry
And, though my heart be broken,
Here is a ring as token
That I am happy now! --
Behold the golden token
That proves me happy now!”
― The Complete Poetry
“The life upon her yellow hair, but not within her eyes--
The life still there upon her hair, the death upon her eyes.”
― The Complete Stories and Poems
The life still there upon her hair, the death upon her eyes.”
― The Complete Stories and Poems
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