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“You wish to be my lover. That's the name for it. But I am a stranger to that form of love."
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"I am not as steady as I may appear," said Hawthorne.”
― The Whale: A Love Story
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"I am not as steady as I may appear," said Hawthorne.”
― The Whale: A Love Story
“[...] wouldn’t it be a relief to know all the answers, so as not to have to write stories about the questions ?
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“How can one decide, with the mind, whom to love? And if the lover hasn’t decide love, then it must be inspired by some other agency [...]”
― The Whale: A Love Story
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“How can one decide, with the mind, whom to love? And if the lover hasn’t decide love, then it must be inspired by some other agency [...]”
― The Whale: A Love Story
“The only thing that was real was that thing that seemed least substansial to the senses: love. That was the grandeur of humankind - that one could willingly throw off the hard - won developments of logic and history and everything that had made human beings exceptional in the world - throw off everything in order to return to the dreamy insensibility of love, the one thing that could not be defined in material terms and therefore escaped the relentless negative calculus of entropy. Love and love alone was eternal”
― The Whale: A Love Story
― The Whale: A Love Story
“This is how beauty must be, he thought, not pretty and safe but unbearable and blank and fierce with the horror of isolation.”
― The Whale: A Love Story
― The Whale: A Love Story
“I hate being the holder of secrets or the bearer of gossip – thinking that people are hiding something all the time makes one liable to superstitious fancies, which is bad for the digestion.”
“I dare say. Though it would be a man of extraordinary moral fortitude who never had anything to hide.”
“If you never do anything dishonorable, you never have anything to hide,” said Holmes. “Where is the extraordinary moral fortitude in that?”
“[...] If I’d wanted to talk nonsense, I would have stayed at Harvard.”
― The Whale: A Love Story
“I dare say. Though it would be a man of extraordinary moral fortitude who never had anything to hide.”
“If you never do anything dishonorable, you never have anything to hide,” said Holmes. “Where is the extraordinary moral fortitude in that?”
“[...] If I’d wanted to talk nonsense, I would have stayed at Harvard.”
― The Whale: A Love Story
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