"The Aspern Papers" Quotes
A literary critic becomes obsessed with obtaining the letters of a deceased poet from his former lover.
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Quotes
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
I was so glad to be alone for a little in the dark.
I was passionate about my idea.
I was so glad to have seen you once.
I had done nothing but think of her and of her, as it were, pitching her tent in the very place and among the very objects from which she was now so finally gone.
I seemed to myself to have been the first to learn that she was dead.
The silence was full of the things one didn't say.
I sometimes think that I was fated to be, in a special and extraordinary way, a man of letters.
I had an immense curiosity to know her story.
The sense of the look was the sense of her being in the room.
