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“But were ideals, after all, meant to be realised? No, a thousand times no! We might long for the stars, but should we ever reach them? No, hope, not realization, was the most beautiful thing in life: "L'espérance, toute trompeuse qu'elle soit, sert au moins à nous mener à la fin de la vie par un chemin agréable". La Rochefoucauld said that...”
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
― Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
“Tell me how the new world can be as familiar as my home and yet my home as strange as the new world.”
― The New Life
― The New Life
“...a new force given to individual initiatives, a need to smash things up, to leap over fences, to break laws – all this, at the start, made the war acceptable. It was confused with freedom, and discipline was then accepted in the belief that it was lacking.”
― Fear
― Fear
“Sentía que dentro del pecho le pataleaba la emoción, como un ser vivo más grande que el seno que lo contiene, y se desahogaba con risas frenéticas, o con repentinos y ardientes chorretazos de lágrimas. Ni era posible decir si aquello era en ambos felicidad o una pena lacerante, porque uno y otro se sentían como heridos por un aguijón que les llegaba al alma, y atormentados por el deseo de un más allá.”
― Tristana
― Tristana
“Love is a deadly poison injected by
black vipers, who writhe in the caves
of Hell. The Poison flows there,
spreads, and falls like dew.
Thirsty souls drink it.
And are intoxicated for a minute,
sober again for a year,
then dead for a century long.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
black vipers, who writhe in the caves
of Hell. The Poison flows there,
spreads, and falls like dew.
Thirsty souls drink it.
And are intoxicated for a minute,
sober again for a year,
then dead for a century long.”
― Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran
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