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“It is my lady. O, it is my love!
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold. ’Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars”
― Romeo and Juliet
O, that she knew she were!
She speaks, yet she says nothing. What of that?
Her eye discourses; I will answer it.
I am too bold. ’Tis not to me she speaks.
Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven,
Having some business, do entreat her eyes
To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there, they in her head?
The brightness of her cheek would shame those
stars”
― Romeo and Juliet
“Mi historia no es agradable, no es suave y armoniosa como las historias inventadas; sabe a insensatez y a confusión, a locura y a ensueño, como la vida de todos los hombres que no quieren más mentirse a sí mismos.”
― Demian
― Demian
“Confía en el tiempo, que suele dar dulces salidas a muchas amargas dificultades...”
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
― El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha
“You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.”
― Conversations with James Baldwin
― Conversations with James Baldwin
“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
― The Complete Short Novels
― The Complete Short Novels
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