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Not sure why but this hit me like a ton of bricks
How can you possibly reproach me for the phrase:
"I wish I had never known you!"
I cannot think of anything more affectionate.
from Gustave Flaubert's Selected Letters -
The Dark
I don't know why it is that one kind of dark can be so different from another.
Real dark is thicker and quieter, it fills up the space between your jacket and your heart.
It gets in your eyes...
Walking in the Dark is like swimming underwater except you can't come up for air.
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
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The Unbearable Lightness of being
"But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak,
the weak had to be strong enough to leave."
- Milan Kundera
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love is a pygmy mouse lemur
"I once knew a woman who liked to imagine Love in the guise of a sturdy dog, one that would always chase down the stick after it was thrown and return with his ears flopping around happily. Completely loyal, completely unconditional. And I laughed at her, because even I knew that love is not like that. Love is a delicate thing that needs to ( Read more... ) -
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tana_seonaid posted a wonderful poem by Pablo Neruda and I love him as well so I wanted to post my favorite by him.
This time is difficult, wait for me:
we will live it out vividly.
Give me your small hand:
we will rise and suffer,
we will feel and rejoice.
We are once more the pair
who lived in bristling places,
in harsh nests in the rock.
This ( Read more... ) -
Stars Are Good Too
"Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can.
You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it.
When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me.
Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never ( Read more... ) -
Moments
"The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has ( Read more... ) -
For Sir
"...each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
The Picture of Dorian Gray
