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“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one extracts its essence.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”
― Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica

“Oddly enough, living only for one’s emotions, like a flag obedient to the breeze, demands a way of life that makes one balk at the natural course of events, for this implies being altogether subservient to nature. The life of the emotions detests all constraints, whatever their origin, and thus, ironically enough, is apt eventually to fetter its own instinctive sense of freedom.”
― Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

“For anyone who insists that taking one step forward and two steps backward will never get you anywhere , I protest: It will if you're walking backwards.”
― George Watsky, How to Ruin Everything: Essays