“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
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“I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ”
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“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].”
― The Woman Destroyed
― The Woman Destroyed
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