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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Mi se prožimamo bez dodira, sporazumevamo bez reči, odmeravamo bez mera, osećamo bez nasilja. U tom međusobnom prostreljivanju, međustrujanju dve protivteže iste gravitacije, dve sile istog izvora i iste utoke, osećamo da nas sudbina spaja već i time što nas tako besprizivno, nemilosrdno razdvaja, i u tom razdvajanju izdvaja, namenjujući obojicu istoj veličanstvenoj sceni.”
― Borislav Pekić, The Time of Miracles

“I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.”
― Philip Larkin

“Something, like nothing, happens anywhere.”
― Philip Larkin

“In everyone there sleeps
A sense of life lived according to love.
To some it means the difference they could make
By loving others, but across most it sweeps,
As all they might have done had they been loved.
That nothing cures.”
― Philip Larkin

“On me your voice falls as they say love should,
Like an enormous yes.”
― Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings

“As usual, it occurred to me that words were the only thing that could possibly save me from this situation. This was a characteristic misunderstanding on my part. When action was needed, I was absorbed in words; for words proceeded with such difficulty from my mouth that I was intent on them and forgot all about action. It seemed to me that actions, which are dazzling, varied things, must always be accompanied by equally dazzling and equally varied words.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion