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From girlhood on, we learn that conversations about love are a gendered narrative, a female subject.
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“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”
― Paradise Lost
“Writing letters is actually an intercourse with ghosts and by no means just with the ghost of the addressee but also with one’s own ghost, which secretly evolves inside the letter one is writing or even in a whole series of letters, where one letter corroborates another and can refer to it as witness.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“Whatever's burning in me is mine”
― Sula
― Sula
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