A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
“A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.”
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A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
“A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.”
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“A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.”
“For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.”
“What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?”
“I was coming, so that i could tell you all this, as if time had stopped for me, as if a certain sensation, a certain feeling were going to remain with me forever from this time forward, as if a single minute would continue for a whole eternity, and all life would come to halt for me …”
“The samovar has been on the boil since before eight, but.. gone out... like everything else in the world. Even the sun, it's they say, will go out eventually. However, if necessary, I'll start it going again.”
“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”
“Everyone I have lost”
“If I lived a million lives, I would've felt a million feelings and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”
“A poet is not somebody who has great thoughts. That is the menial duty of the philosopher. A poet is somebody who expresses his thoughts, however commonplace they may be, exquisitely. That is the one and only difference between the poet and everybody else.”
“Suddenly it's December and you're not 17 anymore. And you haven't been 17 for a very long time, but sometimes you need to remind yourself.”
“I have had to learn the simplest things”