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“...he prayed fundamentally as a gesture of love for what had gone and would go and could loved in no other way.”
― Exit West
― Exit West
“what she loved: life, London, this moment of June.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I've always loved you, and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is, and not as you would like them to be.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Yes, nature is given to mockery! Why does she," he suddenly continued ardently, "why does she create the best beings only so as to mock them afterwards? Didn't she make it so that the single being on earth who had been acknowledged as perfect... didn't she make it so that, having shown him to people, she destines him to say things that have caused so much blood to be shed, that if it had been shed all at once, people would probably have drowned in it! Oh, it's good that I'm dying!”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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