“A terrible sweetness boiled up in me. Everything, for a moment was unstable and radiant as a dream.”Tagged: Terrible Sweetness, Radiance, Life As A Dream, Dream Like Reality, Dreaming
“The sun came suddenly from behind a rain cloud, flooding the room with glorious light that wavered on the walls like water. Camilla’s face burst into glowing bloom. A terrible sweetness boiled up in me. Everything, for a moment—mirror, ceiling, floor—was unstable and radiant as a dream. I felt a…”Tagged: Definitive Moments, Descriptions of Perfect Love Ecstasy
“It’s funny, but thinking back on it now, I realize that this particular point in time, as I stood there blinking in the deserted hall, was the one point at which I might have chosen to do something very different from what I actually did. But of course I didn’t see this crucial moment then for what…”Tagged: Definitive Moments, Making Decisions
“One’s thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. Certain common ideas become inexpressible; other, previously undreamt-of ones spring to life, finding miraculous new articulation. By necessity, I suppose, it is difficult for me to…”Tagged: Breaking Language, Thought Patterns