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“All my adult life I have kept a distance from other people, it has been my way of coping, because I become so incredibly close to others in my thoughts and feelings of course, they only have to look away dismissively for a storm to break inside me.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
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― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
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― Shatter Me
“We had everything to say to each other, but no ways to say it”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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