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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 123fde4 | I want to dance, laugh, eat pink cakes, yellow cakes, drink thin, sharp wine. Or an indecent story, now - I could relish that. The older one grows the more one likes indecency. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e1a6028 | She saw the light again. With some irony in her interrogation, for when one woke at all, one's relations changed, she looked at the steady light, the pitiless, the remorseless, which was so much her, yet so little her, which had her at its beck and call (she woke in the night and saw it bent across their bed, stroking the floor), but for all that she thought, watching it with fascination, hypnotised, as if it were stroking with its silver f.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ba383db | I'm not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ca00e9f | Because it is a thousand pities never to say what one feels | Virginia Woolf | ||
| b6d8d10 | Musical beds is the faculty sport around here. | innuendo | Edward Albee | |
| 652dd01 | Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price. Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for g.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 163b5f0 | With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 18b0bf8 | It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures. | peace nostalgia | Virginia Woolf | |
| 5169456 | I dance like the wind. | Edward Albee | ||
| 8038143 | Must, must, must -- detestable word. Once more, I who had thought myself immune, who had said, "Now I am rid of all that", find that the wave has tumbled me over, head over heels, scattering my possessions, leaving me to collect, to assemble, to head together, to summon my forces, rise and confront the enemy." | virginia-woolf | Virginia Woolf | |
| 4fe6ad9 | But if sleep it was, of what nature, we can scarcely refrain from asking, are such sleeps as these? Are they remedial measures--trances in which the most galling memories, events that seem likely to cripple life for ever, are brushed with a dark wing which rubs their harshness off and gilds them, even the ugliest, and basest, with a lustre, an incandescence? Has the finger of death to be laid on the tumult of life from time to time lest it .. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 1d38331 | When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless... Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| bb4edc8 | In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| a331d50 | Despairing of human relationships (people were so difficult), she often went into her garden and got from her flowers a peace which men and women never gave her. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| ba28596 | For here again, we come to a dilemma. Different though the sexes are, they intermix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. For it was this mixture in her of man and woman, one being uppermost and then the other, that often gave her conduct an unexpected turn. The curio.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| f3d9182 | Her eyes were full of a hot liquid (she did not think of tears at first) which, without disturbing the firmness of her lips, made the air thick, rolled down her cheeks. She had perfect control of herself-Oh, yes!-in every other way. | shock | Virginia Woolf | |
| 452331b | I've cared for heaps of people, but not to marry them' she said. 'I suppose I'm too fastidious. all my life I've wanted somebody I could look up to, somebody great and big and splendid. Most men are so small.' 'What d;you mean by splendid?' Hewet asked. 'People are-nothing more. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| 098e46f | The words (she was looking at the window) sounded as if they were floating like flowers on water out there, cut off from them all, as if no one had said them, but they had come into existence of themselves. "And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves." She did not know what they meant, but, like music, the words seemed to be spoken by her own voice, outside her self, saying quite easily and.. | Virginia Woolf | ||
| e73cc70 | His immense self-pity, his demand for sympathy poured and spread itself in pools at their feet, and all she did, miserable sinner that she was, was to draw her skirts a little closer round her ankles, lest she should get wet. | self-pity self-preservation | Virginia Woolf | |
| e895589 | The questions that we have to ask and to answer about that procession during this moment of transition are so important that they may well change the lives of men and women forever. For we have to ask ourselves, here and now, do we wish to join that procession, or don't we? On what terms shall we join that procession? Above all, where is it leading us, the procession of educated men?...Let us never cease from thinking--what is this "civilis.. | feminism women | Virginia Woolf | |
| a47db81 | The parental eye shed no tears when the time for leave-taking came; a half-rouble in copper coins was given to the boy by way of pocket-money and for sweets, and what is more important, the following admonition: "Mind now, Pavlusha, be diligent, don't fool or gad about, and above all please your teachers and superiors. If you please your superiors, then you will be popular and get ahead of everyone even if you lag behind in knowledge and t.. | Nikolai Gogol | ||
| 374b9b7 | Until he shall have driven her back to Hell, | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 9651405 | Madness it is to hope that human minds can ever understand the Infinite that comprehends Three Persons in One Being. Be satisfied with quia unexplained, O Human race! If you knew everything, no need for Mary to have borne a son. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| ff56056 | And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| c9a0083 | O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one li.. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| f64cf86 | And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| a105535 | When any of our faculties retains a strong impression of delight or pain, the soul will wholly concentrate on that, neglecting any other power it has; and thus, when something seen or heard secures the soul in stringent grip, time moves and yet we do not notice it. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| a7533a8 | Haste denies all acts their dignity. | haste | Dante Alighieri | |
| 2171b9b | There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime they speak their piece, end it, and start again: 'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun; in the glory of his shining our hearts poured a bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun; sullen we lie forever in this ditch.' This litany they gargle in their throats as if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch. | divine-comedy inferno | Dante Alighieri | |
| 19eaf70 | To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 250ce00 | All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause. Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| c1d2438 | These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all. | Dante Alighieri | ||
| 9ef5d73 | What is it then? Why do you hesitate? Why do you relish living like a coward? Why cannot you be bold and keen to start? | bravery live-your-life cowardice | Dante Alighieri | |
| ca27872 | Sunt un om viu. Nimic din ce-i omenesc nu mi-e strain. Abia am timp sa ma mir ca exist, dar ma bucur totdeauna ca sunt. Nu ma realizez deplin niciodata, pentru ca am o idee din ce in ce mai buna despre viata. Ma cutremura diferenta dintre mine si firul ierbii, dintre mine si lei, dintre mine si insulele de lumina ale stelelor. Dintre mine si numere, bunaoara intre mine si 2, intre mine si 3. Am si-un defect un pacat: iau in serios iarba, ia.. | Nichita Stănescu | ||
| 2896451 | And they're also very foolish, because no human being can ever make another human being completely happy. Human beings are far too imperfect for that. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 49afa28 | Don't tell me that our situation didn't damage us, possibly irreparably. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e5edcf1 | Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us. | romance gabriel-emerson inferno gabriel-s-rapture | Sylvain Reynard | |
| a941806 | Your love makes me beautiful." "Then let me love you forever." | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 1cb4151 | Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? Human beings have a tremendous capacity for cruelty. Why is there any goodness at all? | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| e4bcc17 | Because we're soul mates, just like Aristophanes described- one soul in two bodies. You're my missing half. You're my bashert. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| c5c5054 | Das por sentado que mis anteriores relaciones fueron satisfactorias, pero te equivocas. Tu me diste algo que nadie me habia dado antes: sexo y amor al mismo tiempo. Eres la unica de mis parejas que ha sido mi amante en el autentico sentido de la palabra. | spanish | Sylvain Reynard | |
| 5398163 | Volveras? --Su voz era casi un gemido. El suspiro profundamente. --Manana sere expulsado del Paraiso, Beatriz. Nuestra unica esperanza es que tu me encuentres. Buscame en el Infierno. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 4f6eddf | This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture of love and deep satisfaction. An ecstatic glimpse of the beatific vision. | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| bac97c2 | You toyed with her heart. I know what that's like. I can have compassion for her because of that." "I met you first," he whispered. "That doesn't give you license to be cruel." | gabriel-s-rapture sylvain-reynard julia | Sylvain Reynard |