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  • #1
    George Eliot
    “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
    George Eliot

  • #2
    George Eliot
    “What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
    George Eliot

  • #3
    George Eliot
    “I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
    George Eliot

  • #4
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Solo tú y yo,
    dos rebeldes de amor,
    que desafían la lógica, el significado y el sentido.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #5
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “We always say we choose our partners following our free will, when in fact, it is our cultures, traditions and religions that instilled different set of values ( and desirable virtues ) and as such directly affected what we consider acceptable in our relationships.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #6
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Even the "proper way" of how we express our love for another is imposed on us and dictated by societies we live in.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #7
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Abrázame como si fuera el objeto más frágil
    que un toque de pluma pudiera romper.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #8
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Como un beso de película,
    no real,
    pero aún abruma y atrae la lujuria,
    me convierte en placer y un conocedor del amor.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #9
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “If only you were the one I loved first,
    maybe I’d only suffer from not being able
    to love you more.”
    Tatjana Ostojic, Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry

  • #10
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Is it possible to silence
    the mind of a lover
    without losing it?
    Getting desires fulfilled
    might satisfy it,
    taking away its peace.”
    Tatjana Ostojic, Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry

  • #11
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Once there are no more obstacles to overcome,
    no sudden closeness to achieve,
    the eyes open the windows to deception and lies,
    when two intimate hearts become strangers again,
    that’s how the love dies.”
    Tatjana Ostojic, Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry

  • #12
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #13
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Do not read as children do to enjoy themselves, or, as the ambitious do to educate themselves. No, read to live.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #14
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #15
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”
    Gustave Flaubert, November

  • #16
    Gustave Flaubert
    “She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #17
    Gustave Flaubert
    “One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #18
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers."

    (Il ne faut pas toucher aux idoles: la dorure en reste aux mains.)
    Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

  • #19
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Memoirs of a Madman

  • #20
    Gustave Flaubert
    “It’s hard to communicate anything exactly and that’s why perfect relationships between people are difficult to find.”
    Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

  • #21
    Emily Dickinson
    “Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul
    And sings the tune without the words
    And never stops at all.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #22
    Emily Dickinson
    “If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #23
    Emily Dickinson
    “Forever is composed of nows.”
    Emily Dickinson

  • #24
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Love is a longing for becoming one with another human being that nobody of us can avoid.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #25
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “The common ways of 'dealing with problems' are escapism and indulgence.
    Rare of us realize that inside issues can never be fixed on the outside.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #26
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Only the desireless can
    see the world objectively,
    detached from emotion,
    outcome and need.
    But what is the meaning of the truth
    if there is no love in between?”
    Tatjana Ostojic, Cacophony of My Soul: When Love Becomes Poetry

  • #27
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Our love is like the moon,
    changeable through all the phases
    of complete disappearance to full existence.
    It raises the sea up to the sky
    and makes the cool wind ripple its surface.
    Blindly sparkling it doesn’t let us see.
    I know I’m not the only one to love you,
    but your heart inquired only of me.”
    Tatjana Ostojic, Baghdad Nights

  • #28
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Exposure to erotically inclined stimuli immediately activates parts of a male brain that are associated with sexual desire. Being attracted to other women, however, doesn’t mean men would betray the trust they are given and harm the partnership with the women they love.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #29
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “Not every marital union is going to be a meaningful and fulfilling experience.
    Most of marriages today are nothing more than poorly or well managed coexistence.”
    Tatjana Ostojic

  • #30
    Tatjana   Ostojic
    “The greatest power of love is in its capability to revive, regenerate and expand after we have experienced and overcome difficulties in our relationships.”
    Tatjana Ostojic



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