Ella Curry
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Ella Curry
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Oscar Wilde • The Picture of Dorian Gray
"every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown with it the
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“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
Madeline Miller • The Song of Achilles: A Novel
“The poets were always correct,” I say softly. “You are half my soul.”
— Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles
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“Name one hero who was happy."
I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus' back.
"You can't." He was sitting up now, leaning forward.
"I can't."
"I know. They never let you be