“This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
from “Araby”
― Dubliners
“I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.”
― My Ántonia
― My Ántonia
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“You may forget but
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― The Art of Loving Women
let me tell you
this: someone in
some future time
will think of us”
― The Art of Loving Women
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