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I love you too much to let you live only for me.
– The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.
– Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
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The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.
– Piranesi, Susanna Clarke
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Every person, the best as well as the most wretched, carries around a secret which would make him hateful to all others if it became known.
– The Flâneur, Walter Benjamin
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“What's wrong with you, he thought, that you can hate yourself so easily?”
– The Heretic's Guide to Homecoming, Sienna Tristen
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“I thought it was too late to repent.”
“Never too late to repent. Just too late to avoid your fate.”
– Matthew Swift, Kate Griffin
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tianwenmp3 · 3 years
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“即使永坠地狱 也感谢你们给过我 片刻光明”
– Word of Honour/山河令
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tianwenmp3 · 3 years
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“At every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“The city itself does not know that its only moments of generous abandon are those when it becomes detached from itself, when it lets go, expands.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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"If men and women began to live their ephemeral dreams, every phantom would become a person with whom to begin a story of pursuits, pretenses, misunderstandings, clashes, oppression, and the carousel of fantasies would stop.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveller recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“Forced to remain motionless and always the same, in order to be more easily remembered, Zora has languished, disintegrated, disappeared. The earth has forgotten her.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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“The city appears to you as a whole where no desire is lost and of which you are a part, and since it enjoys everything you do not enjoy, you can do nothing but inhabit this desire and be content.”
– Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
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