“I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.”
― The Black Obelisk
― The Black Obelisk
“I don’t want to get old.”
“You won’t get old. Life will pass over your face, that will be all, and it will become more beautiful. One is old only when one no longer feels.”
“No. When one no longer loves.”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“You won’t get old. Life will pass over your face, that will be all, and it will become more beautiful. One is old only when one no longer feels.”
“No. When one no longer loves.”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.”
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
― Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
“It's no shame to be born stupid. Only to die stupid.”
― Three Comrades
― Three Comrades
“Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!”
― The Night in Lisbon
― The Night in Lisbon
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