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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!

'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. 🔮

Of course I was banished. I didn’t need to be banished. I dropped out on my own. My body lost its axis and became so frail I quietly flowed my tears. 🪶

'No one can ever go home,' came her friendly reply. 'But when friends paths meet, the whole world can look like home for a while.' 🐣

It had even become very unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. 🪲

I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another. I had done this and I hadn't done that. I hadn't done this thing but I had done another. And so? 🌇

'Now then', said Mr. Samsa, 'let's give thanks to God for that'. He crossed himself, and the three women followed his example. 🪲