Innocence And Experience Quotes
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“In my errant life I roamed
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
I've known all the countries of our world,
I've lived a thousand lives:
Many lives I lived in love,
Other lives I squandered.
For in my life I never traveled,
All I did was wander.”
― The Wanderess
To learn the secrets of women and men,
Of gods and dreams.
I've known all the countries of our world,
I've lived a thousand lives:
Many lives I lived in love,
Other lives I squandered.
For in my life I never traveled,
All I did was wander.”
― The Wanderess
“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?”
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
― The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
“I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“Yet I had not bargained for this, the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick, that curved upwards like a scimitar he held. The picture had a caption 'Reproof of curiosity.”
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
― The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“Never had we ever kissed as lovers; if we touched lips it was as brother and sister. In one moment of emotion, our lips fell together by accident, but we quickly removed ourselves as though we were children touching glass with dirty hands.”
― The Wanderess
― The Wanderess
“Sometimes I return back to the state of mind I had as a child when I believed nothing was impossible.”
― When We Were Invincible
― When We Were Invincible
“Presurosa una muchacha vino a mí una noche
Impaciente por huir de su inocencia.
Cuando caminaba, su cuerpo le dijo al viento,
Si fueras serio, así es como deberías agitar
Las ramas.”
―
Impaciente por huir de su inocencia.
Cuando caminaba, su cuerpo le dijo al viento,
Si fueras serio, así es como deberías agitar
Las ramas.”
―
“I never seemed to learn from joy; I earned my portion of wisdom through sadness.”
― The Lords of Discipline
― The Lords of Discipline
“There was no fear of sandpaper earth, no sense of danger from a bare-skinned spill, for the boy was a child—a six-foot, one-inch growing child who knew nothing of accident, injury, dismemberment, death—who would study those lessons tomorrow, thank you, but not today. Today, it would be sufficient to be wild and free.”
― Counters
― Counters
“I have always loved Naoko, and I still love her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me. It has an irrestistible power that is bound to sweep me into the future. What I feel for Naoko is a tremendously quiet and gentle and transparent love”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Today was the end of freedom. High school had fallen behind; college loomed ahead. Tomorrow he traded freedom and Arizona for Colorado and discipline.”
― Counters
― Counters
“El alma humana tiene una gran necesidad de blancura. Desde que lo blanco se oscurece, la desdicha empieza. La práctica y conciencia de todas las virtudes, la posesión de las mejores cualidades, la arrogancia de los más nobles sacrificios no bastan a consolar el alma de un solo extravío.”
― Amistad funesta
― Amistad funesta
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