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“this look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven, and fiends will snatch at it. cold, cold, my girl? even like thy chastity.”
― William Shakespeare

“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?”
― Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone

“he sought her lips again...now you know what i have been fighting against since last summer at grand isle; what drove me away and drove me back again...i couldn't help loving you if you were ten times his wife...”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“every love demands privacy, shelter, refuge━ and they had no such refuge.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Mary