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“after all that waiting they hadn't had very long at all in the end”
― MsKingBean89, All the Young Dudes

“He is half of my soul, as the poets say.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Because it is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. The more cultivated a person is, the more intelligent, the more repressed, then the more he needs some method of channeling the primitive impulses he's worked so hard to subdue. Otherwise those powerful old forces will mass and strengthen until they are violent enough to break free, more violent for the delay, often strong enough to sweep the will away entirely.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids