"And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire……" — Lady Gregory
"And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me."
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52 Quotes by Lady Gregory
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