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“She sinks. She sinks in holy sadness. Like an Ophelia in tears she sinks”
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“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
“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
“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
“Even on a personal level art is a
form of heightened living. It gives greater pleasures, it consumes faster. It stamps the features of its servants with the signs of imaginary and spiritual adventures,
and it produces, even in the most cloister-like atmosphere, a certain fastidiousness,
an over-refinement, an exhaustion and curiosity of the nerves, in a way even a life
of the most outrageous passions and delights could scarcely effect it.”
― Death in Venice
form of heightened living. It gives greater pleasures, it consumes faster. It stamps the features of its servants with the signs of imaginary and spiritual adventures,
and it produces, even in the most cloister-like atmosphere, a certain fastidiousness,
an over-refinement, an exhaustion and curiosity of the nerves, in a way even a life
of the most outrageous passions and delights could scarcely effect it.”
― Death in Venice
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