“I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete acceptance and then I give myself to you. I long for you; I who usually long without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“I’m doing badly, I’m doing well, whichever you prefer.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“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
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