“Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond—
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”
― The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.”
― The Seven Ages: Bold and Masterful Poems on Death, Metamorphosis, and Embracing the Inevitable
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
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“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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