“Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.”
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
― Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories
“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“When we make love, I orgasm much sooner than her. That’s because I know a shortcut on my bicycle.”
― Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
― Love quotes for the ages. Specifically ages 18-81.
“There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”
― Choke
― Choke
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