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“But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste!”
― Call Me By Your Name
― Call Me By Your Name
“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.
'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.
I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
― Call Me by Your Name
'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.
I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
― Call Me by Your Name
“Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― Call Me By Your Name
― Call Me By Your Name
“And I do nothing but dream every day that at last I shall meet some one. Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love in that way...." "How? With whom?..." "Why, with no one, with an ideal, with the one I dream of in my sleep.”
― White Nights and Other Stories: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X
― White Nights and Other Stories: The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X
“Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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