Given this conjunction of circumstances, it is little wonder that the story of the last centuries of Roman power is a long tale of pestilence.
“How does this happen? To fall in love and be disassembled.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....”
― 100 Love Sonnets
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child
hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands....”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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