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Genialna powieść i ulubiona lektura. Must read.Kocham powieści realistyczne, a jednak moją zmorą zawsze były niekończące się poetyckie czy nazbyt szczegółowe opisy, jak np. w "Nad Niemnem" Elizy Orzeszkowej czy "Ojcu Goriot" Honoriusza Balzaca, co zn ...more "
“Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Letters to Milena
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Letters to Milena
“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
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“Straight people, he thinks, probably don't spend this much time convincing themselves that they're straight.”
― Red, White & Royal Blue
― Red, White & Royal Blue
“He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.”
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“I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.”
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