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<Hey, Vergilius...? My PDA's been acting weird since we left Wuthering Heights.> Posts may use different translations than you're used to, as I didn't hand-pick every quote. Posts may include different translations, even when quoting the same book. Thank you for reading!

All that is transient Is only a parable; The inadequate, Here it becomes an event; The indescribable, Here it is done; The Eternal Feminine draws us up. 👻

as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions. 🚬

(When the bandage is cut, it bleeds. The gash will heal soon, I believe. Good-bye.) 🪶

So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, who, because of him, might be near to death. 🪲

The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible! 🚬

'May she wake in torment!' he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion. ⛈️

My friend, all theory is grey, and green The golden tree of life. 👻

Then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. ⛪️

'I'd like to eat something', said Gregor anxiously, 'but not anything like they're eating. They do feed themselves. And here I am, dying!' 🪲

'What a quiet life it is the family lead', said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in such a nice home for his sister and parents. 🪲

There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover's whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad. 👢

'Poet,’ I answered, ‘by that God whose name you never knew, I beg you, I entreat – so I may flee this ill and worse – that you now lead me on to where you’ve spoken of, to find the gate where now Saint Peter stands, and all those souls that you say are so sad.’ 🕙

What shall avail you rank and riches, Orphaned while yet in swaddling bands you lay? 🔮

When reason fails, the devil helps! 🪓

I felt like telling her it wasn’t my fault, but I stopped myself because I remembered that I’d already said that to my boss. It didn’t mean anything. Besides, you always feel a little guilty. 🌇

What I can tell your grace is that it deals with truths, and they are truths so appealing and elegant that no lies can equal them. 🎠

He too was a tempter. He too was a link to the other second, the evil world with which I no longer wanted to have anything to do with. 🐣

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And this is one: I'm going to tell it - but take care not to smile at any part of it. ⛈️

He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. ⛈️

Though Not-real was once Real, the Real is never unreal. 🔮