

“I hope that nobody has ever had to look at anybody they love through glass.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk

“Nothing ever ends poetically. It ends and we turn it into poetry. All that blood was never once beautiful. It was just red.”
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“And yet
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
to wine, to opium even, I prefer
the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself;
and in the wasteland of desire
your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal

“Perhaps he is a fool or a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room

“Colour is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
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