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“Може би така се излиза от юношеството:
идваш до ягодовите поляни, търсиш
стъпките на Джон.
И отникъде
за пръв път през живота си
помисляш: "Да, Пол също е добър".”
― Иван Ланджев

“I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.”
― Kafka, Franz

“Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.”
― Kafka, Franzv

“I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

“Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
― Pablo Neruda

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

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

“Sweet mother, I cannot weave –
slender Aphrodite has overcome me
with longing for a girl.”
― Sappho, Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works

“Stand and face me, my love,
and scatter the grace in your eyes.
”
― Sappho, Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho

“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.”
― Sappho

“You may
blame Aphrodite

soft as she is
she has almost
killed me with
love for that boy”
― Sappho

“I want to say something but shame
prevents me

yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things
and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say,
shame would not hold down your eyes
but rather you would speak about what is just”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.”
― Sappho

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden