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East of Eden
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Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in
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“The fruit of solitude is originality, something daringly and disconcertingly beautiful, the poetic creation. But the fruit of solitude can also be the perverse, the disproportionate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“That's everyone's dream, isn't it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.”
― Chain of Gold
― Chain of Gold
“I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“I am a Herondale. We love but once."
"That is only a story."
"Haven't you heard?" James said bitterly. "All the stories are true.”
― Chain of Gold
"That is only a story."
"Haven't you heard?" James said bitterly. "All the stories are true.”
― Chain of Gold
“How can she bear the pain of becoming human? The end of exile is the end of being.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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