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“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
― Manfred
― Manfred
“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“... И нищо че крила корави нямам!
И нищо че животът ме ограбил
и ми оставил само черни жалби
и туй сърце, което толкоз страда!
О, нека всичко, всичко да ми вземат,
но към света да ми оставят само
едно око, с което да го виждам,
едно сърце, с което да го чувствам,
една ръка, с която да го сложа
завинаги в най-честния си стих!”
―
И нищо че животът ме ограбил
и ми оставил само черни жалби
и туй сърце, което толкоз страда!
О, нека всичко, всичко да ми вземат,
но към света да ми оставят само
едно око, с което да го виждам,
едно сърце, с което да го чувствам,
една ръка, с която да го сложа
завинаги в най-честния си стих!”
―
“...she always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― The Song of Achilles
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