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“Oh, well,” said Giovanni, “these absurd women running around today, full of ideas and nonsense, and thinking themselves equal to men—quelle rigolade!—they need to be beaten half to death so that they can find out who rules the world.”
KILL HIM omfg 😭 I get that you’re gay but that’s no reason to be a misogynistic asshole good god get a grip and don’t make your failed situationship our fault
— 3 hours, 8 min ago
KILL HIM omfg 😭 I get that you’re gay but that’s no reason to be a misogynistic asshole good god get a grip and don’t make your failed situationship our fault
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„He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.“
— 1 hour, 0 min ago
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I remembered that there had been something strained and painful in the quality of that silence, which had been broken when Giovanni said, with a shy, bitter smile: “I must find some poetic figure.” And he spread his heavy fingers in the air, as though a metaphor were tangible.
— 1 hour, 7 min ago
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“If dirty words frighten you,” said Giovanni, “I really do not know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only time they do not use them, most people I mean, is when they are describing something dirty.”
— 3 hours, 7 min ago
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“And here my baby came indeed, through all that sunlight, his face flushed and his hair flying, his eyes, unbelievably, like morning stars.“
— Sep 29, 2026 10:10AM
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“Somebody,” said Jacques, “your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.”
— Sep 29, 2026 10:09AM
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“You play it safe long enough,” he said, in a different tone, “and you’ll end up trapped in your own dirty body, forever and forever and forever—like me.”
— Sep 29, 2026 10:08AM
paolina ᯓ★
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“Love him,” said Jacques, with vehemence, “love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?“
— Sep 29, 2026 10:07AM
paolina ᯓ★
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“He is very fond of you,” he said, “already. But this doesn’t make you happy or proud, as it should. It makes you frightened and ashamed. Why?”
“I don’t understand him,” I said at last. “I don’t know what his friendship means; I don’t know what he means by friendship.”
— Sep 29, 2026 10:06AM
“I don’t understand him,” I said at last. “I don’t know what his friendship means; I don’t know what he means by friendship.”
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“You think,” he persisted, “that my life is shameful because my encounters are. And they are. But you should ask yourself why they are.”
“Why are they—shameful?” I asked him.
“Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It’s like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light.”
— Sep 29, 2026 10:06AM
“Why are they—shameful?” I asked him.
“Because there is no affection in them, and no joy. It’s like putting an electric plug in a dead socket. Touch, but no contact. All touch, but no contact and no light.”
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“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain. You ought to have some apprehension that the man you see before you was once even younger than you are now and arrived at his present wretchedness by imperceptible degrees.”
— Sep 29, 2026 10:05AM