Shien Lee

“There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.”
― W.H. Auden

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”
― W.H. Auden, Acting Up

“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read
The hunter's waking thoughts.”
― W.H. Auden, Collected Poems