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I don’t know what I had felt till then. Perhaps just awe of his splendid anger. The living chick in the shell has known no other world. Through the wall comes a whiteness, but he does not know it is light. Yet he taps at the white wall, not
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“I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.”
― Timequake
― Timequake
“What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
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“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
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“In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”
― The Persian Boy
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