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“And yet it's probably this moment that I will have loved the most, the one when I accepted the fact that life is just as it appears to me now, quietly heart-breaking.”

Book:Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile

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“The knowledge rushes up in him, choking off breath. A scream comes, tearing its way out. And then another, and another. He seizes his hair in his hands and yanks it from his head. Golden strands fall on to the bloody corpse. Patroclus, he says, Patroclus, Patroclus. Over and over until it is sound only. Somewhere Odysseus is kneeling, urging food and drink. A fierce red rage comes, and he almost kills him there. But he would have to let go of me. He cannot. He holds me so tightly I can feel the faint beat of his chest, like the wings of a moth. An echo, the last bit of spirit still tethered to my body. A torment.”

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Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name. I see his face as if through water, as a fish sees the sun.”

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Book:The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

“you don't love anyone except for yourself. you're manipulative, selfish. you're alone, because your family hates you. and now I hate you, too.”

Mean Heartbreak Sobbing

Book:Check & Mate

Source: Check & Mate

“Then I feel I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”

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Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.”

Love Philosophy Truth Beauty Virtue

Book:The Symposium

Source: The Symposium

“You only saw the tear waters that make these eyes fish.”

Love Heartbreak Fish Tear Waters

Book:Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

Source: Tomorrow Someone Will Arrest You

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