“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald
Variant: nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.
“Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.”
— Yukio Mishima, book Thirst for Love
Source: Thirst for Love
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