“It is in our relations with other people that we gain a sense of ourselves; it's that, pretty much, that makes relations with other people unbearable.”
― Platform
― Platform
“I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
“People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.”
― Platform
― Platform
“Yet I am not writing with ordinary ink, but with red blood that drips
from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.”
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from my heart. All its wounds long scarred over have opened and it
throbs and hurts, and now and then a tear falls on the paper.”
―
“Las grandes pasiones parten de la antítesis.”
― Venus in Furs
― Venus in Furs
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