Yksin Quotes

“It's having hope which requires having guts. So wear your heart on your sleeve and if it bleeds, let it, so long as it still beats.”
― Juhani Aho, Yksin

“The atmosphere's warm and fervid. The scent of it wafts up in dense waves... sweat laced with perfume like smoke from an oven of burning human lusts.”
― Juhani Aho, Yksin

“I want to let myself go, to glide over the charming greased surface, to be bewitched and intoxicated. And I'm no longer afraid of waking up. Let this world take me, Let this Paris squeeze me to death, so long as it first caresses me and carries me in its arms.”
― Juhani Aho, Yksin