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Alyssa Kay
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“you came and I was crazy for you
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
and you cooled my mind that burned with longing”
― If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return.”
― The Castle of Otranto
― The Castle of Otranto
“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
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stronger than bone, more resilient than
sinew, sensitive than nerve.”
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“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.”
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