“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
― 100 Love Sonnets
“Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Verse XXVII”
― In Memoriam
I feel it when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
Verse XXVII”
― In Memoriam
“So runs my dream, but what am I?
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.”
― In Memoriam
An infant crying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.”
― In Memoriam
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