“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony.”
― 斜陽 [Shayou]
― 斜陽 [Shayou]
“Why do you want to hide it from me?'
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
'I'm not hiding it. It just isn't yours.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
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