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first pick of shakespeare book club very excited rn

“For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”

“Thus with a kiss I die.”

“For fear of that I will stay with thee
And never from this palace of dim night
Depart again. Here, here will I remain
With worms that are thy chambermaids. O here
Will I set up my everlasting rest
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss.”

“I beseech thee, youth,
Put not another sin upon my head
By urging me to fury. O, be gone!
By heaven, I love thee better than myself,
For I come hither armed against myself.
Stay not, be gone. Live, and hereafter say
A madman’s mercy bid thee run away.”

“Out, you green-sickness carrion! Out, you baggage! You tallow-face!”
Once in my life I want to insult someone like this

“How, how, how, how, chopped logic? What is this?”
My thoughts 90% of the time when I’m speaking to other people

“O, then I see that madmen have no ears.”
“How should they, when that wise men have no eyes?”

“Affliction is enamoured of thy parts,
And thou art wedded to calamity.”

“Blistered be thy tongue
For such a wish! He was not born to shame
Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit.”

“O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell
When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend
In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh?
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace!”

„O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show!
Just opposite to what thou justly seemest-
A damned saint, an honourable villain!”