“Yesterday I advised you not to write me every day, I still hold the same opinion today and it would be very good for both of us, and so I repeat my advice today even more emphatically only please, Milena, don't listen to me, and write me every day anyway, it can even be very brief, briefer than today's letters, just 2 lines, just one, just one word, but if I had to go without them I would suffer terribly.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I was reading my destiny inside your eyes without knowing it.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“You spent so much time explaining yourself, your work to others—what it meant, what you were trying to accomplish, why you had chosen the colors and subject matter and materials and application and technique that you had—that it was a relief to simply be with another person to whom you didn’t have to explain anything.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Milena, if a million loved you, I am one of them, and if one loved you, it was me, if no one loved you then know that I am dead.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“وهذه هي النهاية في الحقيقة, فلقد مضيت عني بعيدا.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
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