The Prophet
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And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
“You have to love what you can always come back to, what’s home waiting for you.”
― The Prince of Tides
― The Prince of Tides
“I killed a plant once because I gave
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― Citizen Illegal
it too much water. Lord, I worry
that love is violence.”
― Citizen Illegal
“Wings,” she murmured, “oh, yes—to fly away with when he’s tired of his play. Of course it was a man who conceived the idea of wings, otherwise Cupid would have been insupportable.”
― The King in Yellow
― The King in Yellow
“This has been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then come languor and decay.”
― The Time Machine (annotated): by H. G. Wells
― The Time Machine (annotated): by H. G. Wells
“It's senseless to ask, considering this letter won't arrive for 14 days, but maybe this will only be a small addition to the general senselessness of my request: do not let yourself be scared away from me --- if it is at all possible in this unsteady world (where, when one is torn away, one is simply torn away and can't do anything about it) --- even if I disappoint you once or a thousand times or right now or perhaps always right now. Incidentally, that isn't a request and isn't directed to you at all; I don't know where it is directed. It's simply the oppressed breathing of an oppressed chest.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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