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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
― Marcel Proust

“Be yourself, no one can ever tell you you’re doing it wrong.”
― James Leo Herlihy

“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears out? Not that of which we are made, that is certain. We wither and fade away, we perish, because the desire to live is extinguished. And why does this most potent flame die out? For lack of faith. From the time we are born we are told that we are mortal. From the time we are able to understand words we are taught that we must kill in order to survive. In season and out we are reminded that, no matter how intelligently, reasonably or wisely we live, we shall become sick and die. We are inoculated with the idea of death almost from birth. Is it any wonder that we die?”
― Henry Miller, Plexus

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”
― Henry Miller

“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart: A confused and unreliable organ at best, it now held something akin to joy.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“My image of others has gone through a thousand transformations, from idealization to total rejection, to re-creation and rescue of a totally new self. As I changed, my perspective changed. The theme of images. How one must struggle against this creation and invention of others, listen to them attentively, let them state their own case, weigh and balance the impressions. Otherwise this invention takes over, or projection. We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire. Often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment because it does not fit them.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 6: 1955-1966

“I love you but
don't know what to
do.”
― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
― Anais Nin