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“One sip of this wine
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
and tear your clothes — destroying
everything that separates you from the Lover.
Once you taste the fruit of this vine,
you will be kicked out of the city of yourself.
You will forget the world. You will forget yourself.
I tell you:
you will become a madman
who wanders the streets looking for the Lover
once you drink this Wine of Love.”
―
and you will go mad with drunkenness.
You will drop your masks
and tear your clothes — destroying
everything that separates you from the Lover.
Once you taste the fruit of this vine,
you will be kicked out of the city of yourself.
You will forget the world. You will forget yourself.
I tell you:
you will become a madman
who wanders the streets looking for the Lover
once you drink this Wine of Love.”
―
“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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“It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.”
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
― What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours
“I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
―
I have no other
ransom money, nothing to break or barter but my life”
―
“We want to be loved; failing that, admired; failing that, feared; failing that, hated and despised. At all costs we want to stir up some sort of feeling in others. Our soul abhors a vacuum. At all costs it longs for contact.”
― Doctor Glas
― Doctor Glas
Q&A with Margaret Atwood
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