“You have been in every way all that anyone could be.… If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
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