Shy

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Shy’s Quotes

“Eros limbslackener shakes me again—
that sweet, bitter, impossible creature.”
― Jim Powell, The Poetry of Sappho

tags: eros, poetry, sappho, the-poetry-of-sappho

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“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic

tags: allow, echo, god

259 likes

“I’m no longer a man, I’m a chorus”
― Stuart Turton, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle

tags: men, theatre

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“It is already hard enough to understand what someone is saying. Discussion is just an exercise in narcissism where everyone takes turns showing off. Very quickly, you no longer have any idea what is being discussed.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Two Regimes of Madness: Texts And Interviews 1975 1995

tags: discussion, emptiness, meaninglessness, narcissism, vanity

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“Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all. Men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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