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“i would have liked to get off the train and make love with him in any hotel, the way we used to at monte barreto; in moments of danger i have always felt the need to have someone close to me.”
― Before Night Falls
― Before Night Falls
“every love demands privacy, shelter, refuge━ and they had no such refuge.”
― Mary
― Mary
“suppose that when you begged for something desperately
a man should neither grant it you nor give sympathy even; but later when you were glutted with all your heart's desire, should give it then, when charity was no charity at all?”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
a man should neither grant it you nor give sympathy even; but later when you were glutted with all your heart's desire, should give it then, when charity was no charity at all?”
― The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
“he gathered antigonê close in his arms again. choking, his blood bright red on her white cheek. and now he lies dead with the dead, and she is his at last, his bride in the houses of the dead.”
― The Oedipus Cycle
― The Oedipus Cycle
“There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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