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I went away in my head
*"I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible".
* "I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were".* "I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a ( Read more... ) -
Gory Bits
I thought I understood it,
that I could grasp it.
But I didn't, not really.
Only the smudginess of it;
the pink-slippered, all-containered,
semi-precious eagerness of it,
of you,
and of me.
I didn't realize it would sometimes be more
than whole,
that the wholeness was a rather luxurious idea.
Because it's the halves that halve you in half.
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Seperated Lovers
"Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality.
They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write;
nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding,
by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers,
the laughter of children, the light of the sun,
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They Remain Slaves
I am afraid that women appreciate cruelty,
downright cruelty, more than anything else.
They have wonderfully primitive instincts.
We have emancipated them,
but they remain slaves looking for their masters,
all the same.
They love being dominated.
~The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
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He Never Intended To Love Her
She lifted her face to him, and he bent forward and kissed her on the mouth, gently, with the one kiss that is an eternal pledge.
And as he kissed her his heart strained again in his breast.
He never intended to love her. But now it was over.
He had crossed over the gulf to her, and all that he had left behind had shriveled and become void.
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Always
"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it.
Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.
It is a meaningless word, too.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
~Oscar Wilde, Picture of Dorian Gray
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A Kiss
"Drink with me, my dear," said Mr. Weller.
"Put your lips to this here tumbler,
and then I can kiss you by deputy."
~Charles Dickens The Pickwick Papers -
Guy De Maupassant....Anticipation for summer reading
"I sat down on the grass, and gazed at that vast, melancholy, and fascinating lake, and a strange feeling arose in me; I was seized with an insatiable need of love, a revolt against the gloomy dullness of my life. What! would it never be my fate to wander, arm in arm, with a man I loved, along a moon-kissed bank like this? Was I never to feel ( Read more... ) -
For Sir in July
"He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly." Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
