“The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“A searing anxiety developed inside me at this thought, in the same form it always took no matter what external stimulus triggered it: first the realization that I would die, then that everyone else would die, and then that the universe itself would eventually experience heat death, a kind of thought sequence that expanded outward endlessly in forms too huge to be contained inside my body.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Sappho begins with a sweet apple and ends in infinite hunger.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
“And as for the rest, let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“What if the meaning of life on earth is not eternal progress toward some unspecified goal—the engineering and production of more and more powerful technologies, the development of more and more complex and abstruse cultural forms? What if these things just rise and recede naturally, like tides, while the meaning of life remains the same always—just to live and be with other people?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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