
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
“Brothers, yet insensate brutes
Who fear each others’ eyes.”
Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car
Context: Orchard of the strangest fruits
Hanging from the skies;
Brothers, yet insensate brutes
Who fear each others’ eyes.
Cassandra (1860)
Context: It is very well to say "be prudent, be careful, try to know each other." But how are you to know each other?
Unless a woman had lost all pride, how is it possible for her, under the eyes of all her family, to indulge in long exclusive conversations with a man? "Such a thing" must not take place till after her "engagement." And how is she to make an engagement, if "such a thing" has not taken place?
Le seul véritable voyage, le seul bain de Jouvence, ce ne serait pas d'aller vers de nouveaux paysages, mais d'avoir d'autres yeux, de voir l'univers avec les yeux d'un autre, de cent autres, de voir les cent univers que chacun d'eux voit, que chacun d'eux est.
Source: In Search of Lost Time, Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. V: The Captive (1923), Ch. II: "The Verdurins Quarrel with M. de Charlus"
“How about we give each other everything we can and not blame each other for what we can’t.”
Source: The Sweetest Thing
“How much energy they put into harming each other. How little into saving.”