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sometimes with shakespeare plays i just want to say. i like this play! that’s it! and this is one of them. i’m obsessed with richard as a character and i will be trying to articulate something smart about it soon in paper form. so we’ll see. but for
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"nodding along to marxist theory to make sure everyone in the reading group thinks i’m smart enough to get it." — Oct 05, 2026 11:39AM
"nodding along to marxist theory to make sure everyone in the reading group thinks i’m smart enough to get it." — Oct 05, 2026 11:39AM
“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
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“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― Maurice
― Maurice
“You're not hurt, Watson? For God's sake, say that you are not hurt!"
It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
It was worth a wound -- it was worth many wounds -- to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.”
― The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
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