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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“I like the sound of rain more than my voice.

- Windows”
― Nâzım Hikmet, Poems of Nazım Hikmet

“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.”
― Natalie Newman, Butterflies and Bullshit

“Io sono uno che ama e non ho trovato la cosa da amare.”
― Sherwood Anderson

“Nobody but you

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso.
Sarai continuamente messo
in situazioni praticamente
impossibili.

Ti metteranno continuamente alla prova
con sotterfugi, inganni e
sforzi
per farti capitolare, arrendere e/o morire silenziosamente
dentro.

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e sarà abbastanza facile fallire
davvero facilissimo
ma non farlo, non farlo, non farlo.
Guardali e basta.
Ascoltali.
Vuoi diventare così?
Un essere senza volto, senza cervello, senza cuore?
Vuoi provare
la morte prima della morte?

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e vale la pena di salvarti.
È una guerra non facile da vincere
ma se c’è qualcosa che vale la pena vincere
è questa.

Pensaci su
pensa al fatto di salvare il tuo io.

Il tuo io spirituale.
il tuo io viscerale.
il tuo io magico che canta e
il tuo io bellissimo.
Salvalo.
Non unirti ai morti-di-spirito.

Mantieni il tuo io
con umorismo e benevolenza
e alla fine
se necessario
scommetti sulla tua vita mentre combatti,
fottitene dei pronostici, fottitene
del prezzo.

Solo tu puoi salvare il tuo
io.

Fallo! Fallo!

Allora saprai esattamente di cosa
sto parlando.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Quelli come te, che hanno due sangui diversi nelle vene, non trovano mai riposo né contentezza; e mentre sono là, vorrebbero trovarsi qua, e appena tornati qua, subito hanno voglia di scappar via. Tu te ne andrai da un luogo all’altro, come se fuggissi di prigione, o corressi in cerca di qualcuno; ma in realtà inseguirai soltanto le sorti diverse che si mischiano nel tuo sangue, perché il tuo sangue è come un animale doppio, è come un cavallo grifone, come una sirena. E potrai anche trovare qualche compagnia di tuo gusto, fra tanta gente che s’incontra al mondo; però, molto spesso, te ne starai solo. Un sangue-misto di rado si trova contento in compagnia: c’è sempre qualcosa che gli fa ombra, ma in realtà è lui che si fa ombra da se stesso, come il ladro e il tesoro, che si fanno ombra uno con l’altro.”
― Elsa Morante, L'isola di Arturo

“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“that is what migrations and relocations do to us: when you leave your home for unknown shores, you don’t simply carry on as before; a part of you dies inside so that another part can start all over again.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“I’ve been thinking that you are my country. Is that a strange thing to say? Without you, I don’t have a home in this world; I am a felled tree, my roots severed all round; you can topple me with the touch of a finger.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“bridges appear in our lives only when we are ready to cross them.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Do you also believe that what gives our lives their meaning is the passion that suddenly invades us heart, soul, and body, and burns in us forever, no matter what else happens in our lives? And that if we have experienced this much, then perhaps we haven’t lived in vain? Is passion so deep and terrible and magnificent and inhuman? Is it indeed about desiring any one person, or is it about desiring desire itself? That is the question. Or perhaps, is it indeed about desiring a particular person, a single, mysterious other, once and for always, no matter whether that person is good or bad, and the intensity of our feelings bears no relation to that individual’s qualities or behavior?”
― Sándor Márai, Embers

“But like every kiss, this one is an answer, a clumsy but tender answer to a question that eludes the power of language.”
― Sándor Márai, Embers