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“The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.”
― Edward Thomas

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“He had not touched me. He did not need to. His presence had affected me in such a way that I felt as if he had caressed me for a long time.”
― Anaïs Nin, Delta of Venus

“You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.”
― Franz Kafka

“To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.”
― Charles Baudelaire

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness.”
― Anaïs Nin

“As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“tell me how does it feel with my teeth in your heart!”
― Euripides, Medea

“Woman does not emerge from a man’s rib, not ever, it’s he who emerges from her womb.”
― Nizar Qabbani

“She wanted to lose herself in the words, in other times and places”
― George R.R. Martin

“I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.”
― Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

“But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.”
― david wong

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa

“When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“I love you, with a touch of tragedy and quite madly.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, Letters to Sartre

“The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“The king is always watching her out of his pale eyes, wondering what she is, and the king’s son wounds himself with loving her and wonders who she is. And every day she searches the sea and the sky, the castle and the courtyard, the keep and the king’s face, for something she cannot always remember. What is it, what is it that she is seeking in this strange place? She knew a moment ago, but she has forgotten.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn