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“to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let it go,
to let it go”
― New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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