“I want to go home, I want to go home, but what I mean, what I'm grasping for, is not a place, it's a feeling.”
― Marlena
― Marlena
“How is it, Milena, that you're still not afraid of me or disgusted by me or something like that? Is there any limit to the depth of your sincerity, your strength!”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.”
― Orlando
― Orlando
“Is it true that human beings are fundamentally cruel? Is the experience of cruelty the only thing we share as a species? Is the dignity that we cling to nothing but self-delusion, masking from ourselves the single truth: that each one of us is capable of being reduced to an insect, a ravening beast, a lump of meat? To be degraded, slaughtered - is this the essential of humankind, one which history has confirmed as inevitable?”
― Human Acts
― Human Acts
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