Lisa
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The bright side of the planet moves toward darkness And the cities are falling asleep, each in its hour, And for me, now as then, it is too much. There is too much world. —Czeslaw Milosz The Separate Notebooks
“A Black Madonna: the blackness of death, but also the blackness of good soil, dark with decay, which gives rise to life.”
― The Magician King
― The Magician King
“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
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“Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day something is different, so that in the heaping up of days suddenly a thing that was impossible has become possible. This is how a girl becomes a grown woman. Step by step until it is done.”
― The Power
― The Power
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