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“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.”
― Death in Venice
― Death in Venice
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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