“How terrible-- to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees!”
― Oedipus Rex
― Oedipus Rex
“The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood,
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
O cross! too high to be enthrall’d to low.
Or else misgraffed in respect of years,
O spite! too old to be engag’d to young.
Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,
O hell! to choose love by another’s eye.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“I’ll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
To die upon the hand I love so well.”
― A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love.”
― Oedipus at Colonus
― Oedipus at Colonus
“The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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