“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Love: Ten Poems
― Love: Ten Poems
“Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’
Like a little lost Sputnik?’
I guess so.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
Like a little lost Sputnik?’
I guess so.”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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falls drop by drop upon the heart
until, in our own despair, against our will,
comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
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“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.”
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
― The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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