Diana

“Но вспять безумцев не поворотить,
Они уже согласны заплатить.
Любой ценой — и жизнью бы рискнули,
Чтобы не дать порвать, чтоб сохранить
Волшебную невидимую нить,
Которую меж ними протянули…”
― Visotsky

“...his heart had positively begun to beat to the time of suspense...The unspoken had come up, and there was a crisis - neither could have said how long it lasted - during which they were reduced, for all interchange, to looking at each other on a quite an inordinate scale.”
― Henry James, The Golden Bowl

“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...”
― Thomas Mann , Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“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.”
― Khalil Gibran, Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Khalil Gibran