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“Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

“In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen. What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. The angles of vision are skewed. When a booby trap explodes, you close your eyes and duck and float outside yourself. .. The pictures get jumbled, you tend to miss a lot. And then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end...”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people…Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.”
― J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction

“If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.”
― Roger de Bussy-Rabutin

“ผมเป็นปีศาจที่กาลเวลาได้สร้างขึ้นมาหลอกหลอนคนที่อยู่ในโลกเก่า ความคิดเก่าทำให้เกิดความละเมอหวาดกลัวและไม่มีอะไรจะเป็นเครื่องปลอบใจท่านเหล่านี้ได้เท่ากับไม่มีอะไรหยุดยั้งความรุดหน้าของกาลเวลาที่จะสร้างปีศาจเหล่านี้ให้มากขึ้นทุกที ท่านคิดจะทำลายปีศาจตัวนี้ในคืนวันนี้ต่อหน้าสมาคมชั้นสูงเช่นนี้ แต่ไม่มีทางจะเป็นไปได้เพราะเขาอยู่ยงคงกระพันยิ่งกว่าอาคิลลิสหรือซิกฟริด เพราะเขาอยู่ในเกราะกำบังแห่งกาลเวลา ท่านอาจจะเหนี่ยวรั้งอะไรไว้ได้บางสิ่งบางอย่างชั่วครั้งชั่วคราว แต่ท่านไม่สามารถจะรักษาทุกสิ่งทุกอย่างไว้ได้ตลอดไป โลกของเราเป็นคนละโลก...โลกของผมเป็นโลกของธรรมดาสามัญชน”
― เสนีย์ เสาวพงศ์, ปีศาจ

“คุณเป็นนักเขียน ดี คุณเลือกงานถูกแล้ว แต่อย่าอยู่โดดเดี่ยวกับควา​มคิดฝันของคุณเท่านั้น คุณอย่าคิดว่าความจัดเจนถ้อ​ยคำและภาษาเกิดแต่ความนึกคิ​ดอย่างเดียว คุณต้องไปสู่ฝูงชน ไปสู่ราษฎรและประชาชน เขาต่างหากที่เป็นเจ้าของภา​ษาและความจัดเจน เพื่อรู้ชีวิตและบรรยายชีวิ​ต คุณต้องเรียนจากประชาชน จากของจริง”
― เสนีย์ เสาวพงศ์

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
― William Faulkner

“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
― S.G. Tallentyre, The Friends of Voltaire

“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“So that's how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no matter how important the thing that's stolen from us--that's snatched right out of our hands--even if we are left completely changed, with only the outer layer of skin from before, we continue to play out our lives this way, in silence. We draw ever nearer to the end of our allotted span of time, bidding it farewell as it trails off behind. Repeating, often adroitly, the endless deeds of the everyday. Leaving behind a feeling of immeasurable emptiness.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives. ”
― Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“All extremes of feeling are allied with madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
― bell hooks