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“Sometimes you didn't really arrive at a conclusion about your life, you just discovered that you already had.”
― Lord of Emperors
― Lord of Emperors
“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
― Beautiful Losers
― Beautiful Losers
“A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.”
― The Last Light of the Sun
― The Last Light of the Sun
“I almost went to bed
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”
― The Spice-Box of Earth
without remembering
the four white violets
I put in the button-hole
of your green sweater
and how i kissed you then
and you kissed me
shy as though I’d
never been your lover”
― The Spice-Box of Earth
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