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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.”
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“Sit, be still, and listen,
because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
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because you're drunk
and we're at
the edge of the roof.”
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“But listen to me. For one moment
quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
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quit being sad. Hear blessings
dropping their blossoms
around you.”
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“Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you.”
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Scandinavian and Nordic Fiction in English
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