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Quotes tagged “The Beatrice Effect”

“In her absence I created her image: out of the earthly the hidden heavenly commences.”
— Mahmoud Darwish, In Her Absence I Created Her Image
Tagged: The Secret of Secrecy, The Story of God & Man, Love Image As Escape, Idealized Images, Imagined Maden, The Beatrice Effect
“The ardent pulses of the imagined maiden.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Idealized Images, Not (Yet) Real, Imagined Maiden, The Beatrice Effect
“He never spoke to her. He loved her madly.”
— Vladimir Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Tagged: Love, Distance, Imagined Love, Imagined Maidens, The Beatrice Effect, Image As Reality
“Ideas, images, or wishes rose up in me and pulled me away from the outside world, to the point where my relationship with these pictures inside me, these dreams and shadows, were truer and more vital than those I had with my true surroundings.”
— Hermann Hesse, Demian
Tagged: Lines Fade, Reality, Boundary Breaks, Imagined Maden, Not (Yet) Real, Lies as Truth, The Beatrice Effect

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