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“He had come to believe, after years of creating respect and fear wherever he put his foot down, after years of being the tallest man in every gathering, that he was impregnable. Now he crept along the wall looking at a man who was as tall as he was-and forty years younger.”

“I weep over my imperfect pages, but if future generations read them, they will be more touched by my weeping than by any perfection I might have achieved, since perfection would have kept me from weeping and, therefore, from writing. Perfection never materializes. The saint weeps, and is human. God is silent. That is why we can love the saint but cannot love God.”

With all these coincidences one would think there’s only one inn in Spain 💀

When Don Quixote saw that hank of beard-hair, bloodlessly detached from its jaw and lying far from the fallen squire, he said:
'Good God, this is indeed a great miracle! The mule has plucked his beard clean from his face, just as if it had been shaved off!'

I’m crying 😭 maybe I’m sleep deprived but this is low-key funny

“Whenever I see a dead body, death seems to me a departure. The corpse looks to me like a suit that was left behind. Someone went away and didn't need to take the one and only outfit he'd worn.”

Girls kiss other girls and no one bats an eye…but when I kiss my homies goodnight? Society…! Society calls me gay!

“We often ask ourselves the question: what does it mean to be human?…We rarely, or possibly never, say that to be human is simply to be born to human parents - the one answer that would not exclude our group.”

“But tears cannot put out the flame;
They inflame the face and melt the spirit"
—Pompeii graffiti

"How soft is violence?"
—Herculaneum graffiti

Amara is stressing me out 😭

"He always said there was no book so bad that some good could not be got out of it."
-Pliny the Younger, on his uncle, Pliny the Elder

Every word I read raises my blood pressure

“Petrovich was in an undeniable state of agitation, rubbing his hands, thinking and pondering.”

Bro is a cornball 😭

“With every word she spoke he was growing more and more quarrelsome, as though he were acquiring a taste for it.”

“Pyotr Petrovich belonged to that category of men who, when observed in society, appear extremely amiable and make a special virtue of their amiability, but who, as soon as anything is not quite to their liking, at one lose all their inner resources and become more reminiscent of sacks of flour than easy-going cavaliers…”

Pretending to be asleep to avoid people is so real

“He’s a clever man, but in order to act cleverly, cleverness alone is not enough.”

“And then I met Gretchen and so to sanity; I could speak to nobody else, no human, and so I spoke to Gretchen.”

Raskolnikov is stressing me tf out

“With this fearful intimation there opened in me a hatred for Giovanni which was as powerful as my love and which was nourished by the same roots.”

“I was undergoing with my father what the very young inevitably undergo with their elders: I was beginning to judge him. And the very harshness of this judgment, which broke my heart, revealed, though I could not have said it then, how much I had loved him, how that love, along with my innocence, was dying.”

“Take the blinders off your threat, so I may look it in the eye.”

“I don’t think I’ll ever meet anyone I like more than you, Wulf. Let’s always be friends, as long as we live.”

Average lady florell w

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