“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
― In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I like revisiting, at certain times, spots where I was once happy; I like to shape the present in the image of the irretrievable past.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
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