“La parole humaine est comme un chaudron fêlé où nous battons des mélodies à faire danser les ours, quand on voudrait attendrir les étoiles.”
― Madame Bovary
― Madame Bovary
“Mnemosyne, one must admit, has shown herself to be a very careless girl.”
― Speak, Memory
― Speak, Memory
“She had a right to his arm, though it was without feeling. He would give her, who was so simple, so impulsive, only twenty-four, without friends in England, who had left Italy for his sake, a piece of bone.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.”
― Homebody/Kabul
― Homebody/Kabul
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