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“Your soul, dear Lucy! I hate the word now, because of all the cant with which superstition has wrapped it round. But we have souls, and I see you ruining yours. I cannot bear it.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“She sinks. She sinks in holy sadness. Like an Ophelia in tears she sinks”
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“Do you come from Heaven or rise from the abyss, Beauty?”
― The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal
― The Flowers of Evil / Les Fleurs du Mal
“I do not consider her choice of a piece happy. Beethoven is so usually simple and direct in his appeal that it is sheer perversity to choose a thing like that, which, if anything, disturbs.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
“It was the smile of Narcissus bending over the water mirror, the deep, enchanted, protracted smile with which he stretched out his arms to the reflection of his own beauty, an ever so slightly contorted smile—contorted by the hopelessness of his endeavor to kiss the lovely lips of his shadow—and coquettish, inquisitive and mildly pained, beguiled and beguiling.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
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