“At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling.”
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“When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.”
― The Baklava Club
― The Baklava Club
“Above all, she loved being loved, and he had flooded her with attentions. Making her feel so often that she existed for him, he made her existence real. No, she was not alone.”
― Exile and the Kingdom
― Exile and the Kingdom
“He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and to weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live—undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They neither bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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