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read on the trolley back from Mexico:

Feb 16, 2002 16:54

"Love means nothing to me if it's not fortified with fierce, painful longing, brief explosive instances of furious passion and intimacy and then a sad parting for a time. I think some couples spend too much time together. They flatten out the potential for experience by constant closeness. Passion builds over time like steam. Let it rage until it's ( Read more... )

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judes February 16 2002, 17:13:37 UTC

wow. powerful words.

Love and other stuff goddess_of_hate February 16 2002, 17:24:35 UTC

Love is something you can't deny or claim to feel, but its really something that can not be explained with any words, really its a waste of time cause it has absolutely nothing to offer in the end exept heartbreak and longing, yet it makes some people happy, and some people actually live their entire lives looking for true love, the only true love i have found is those of a couple of my selected friends, yet they betray me and they don't seize to amaze me in bad and good ways frequently...one like me to whom success is everything, and to whom failure is the end of the world, well...love really doesn't seem so important, so yes, very powerfull words, but we must respect the ideal point of the dreamer and the way they are actually happy even for some "long" periods of time, shouldent we respect happy people?

aimlessly February 16 2002, 17:58:54 UTC

but what happens when that sad parting for a time turns into forver?

listening February 16 2002, 19:00:26 UTC

it's better to burn out than fade away.
(my my, hey hey).

declinedsorrows February 16 2002, 18:07:31 UTC

my exact words when i was done reading it "gawd that was so good"
it truly is amazing, i felt like, for the first time, my soul was read.

listening February 16 2002, 18:59:46 UTC

i feel that way with a lot of the stuff he writes.
but this passage really affected me; it's about a lot more than romantic love. it made me realize why i don't want to write in here as much anymore, if at all.

insomniacrocker February 16 2002, 19:22:36 UTC

care to explain yourself...

i'm curious about what that passage makes you want to stop posting.

listening February 16 2002, 19:43:47 UTC

creative endeavors are a lot like relationships, and they can get weighed down by the mundane and the everyday and the repetitive, too. it's good to save up energy.

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insomniacrocker February 16 2002, 18:25:19 UTC

that was perfect.