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“My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Yeah, yeah, yeah.. Lots of fine people have sat staring at the inside of prison walls. Socrates, Gandhi, Joan of Arc, even our lord Jesus Christ. He spent the last night of his life not with holy men, but with scum like the kind we've got in Oz. One of the last things Jesus did on earth was invite a prisoner to join him in heaven. He loved that criminal. I say he loved that criminal as much as he loved anyone. Jesus knew in his heart it takes a lot to love a sinner. But the sinner, he needs it all the more.”
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“The light of my eyes, I said, light of my eyes, light of the world, that's what you are, light of my life. I didn't know what light of my eyes meant, and part of me wondered where on earth had I fished out such claptrap, but it was nonsense like this that brought tears now, tears I wished to down in his pillow, soak in his bathing suit, tears I wanted him to touch with the tip of his tongue and make sorrow go away.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name
“I’m restless and harsh and despairing. Although I do have love inside me. I just don’t know how to use love. Sometimes it tears at my flesh, like barbs. If I can hold so much love within me, and nevertheless continue to be uneasy, it’s because I need God to come. Come, before it’s too late. I’m in danger, as is everyone who’s alive.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
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