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“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”
― Persuasion
― Persuasion
“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.”
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
― Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”
― A Room with a View
― A Room with a View
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