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“what was his best part?' 'his lover patroclus”
“Daedalus had said to me once: Even the best iron grows brittle with too much beating.”
“Do you always make beautiful things for those you are angry with?”
“but there was no wound she could give me that i had nit already given myself”
“i had never thought of having children, but looking at him, for a moment i could imagine it”
“but there was no wound that she could give me that i had not already given myself”
“Sometimes you must be content with ignorance”
“I had a little pride, as I have said, and that was good. More would have been fatal.”
“Me adentré en el bosque y allí dio comienzo mi vida.”
“I have heard,' I said, 'that many find their trust in love.”
“...and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.”
“But endurance had always been my virtue, and I kept on”
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. -Then, child, make another.”
“She seemed to fit into the air like a jewel in its crown.”
“Death's Brother is the name that poets give to sleep”
“I looked into his good face. Not good because it was handsome, but because it was itself...”
“Fiel, honesta y prudente. Qué palabras tan pasivas, tan plácidas para describir lo que era ella.”
“Ein goldener Käfig ist und bleibt ein Käfig.”
“Seit Hunderten von Generationen war ich nun schon auf der Erde - und war doch immer noch ein Kind.”
“Helden sind Dummköpfe, hatte ich entgegnet. Er hatte gelacht. Da sind wir uns einig.”
“Idylle hatte ich unsere gemeinsame Zeit bezeichnet. Illusion hätte es vielleicht besser getroffen.”
“Deli olmayan bütün varlıkların arkadaşa ihtiyacı vardır.”
“Yüreklerimizde gerçekten ne olduğu bilinseydi kaçımız affedilirdi?”