There were certain things that you hit from different angles, but you never gave up on. You did the work that was needed, wherever that work took you.
“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”
― The Bell Jar
I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel for-women-only, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near onto an hour, and I felt myself growing pure again. I don't believe in baptism or the waters of Jordan or anything like that, but I guess I feel about a hot bath the way those religious people feel about holy water.”
― The Bell Jar
“Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”
― Letters to Milena
“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up with it. Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression for everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true. Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most - you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love. This, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“وأعرف منك أيضا بأنني أحبك إلى حد أستطيع أن أغيب فيه بالصورة التي تشائين إذا كنت تعتقدين أن هذا الغياب سيجعلك أكثر سعادة”
― رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان
― رسائل غسان كنفاني إلى غادة السمان
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