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“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 don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed.”
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“the centre of every poem is this:
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.
— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Letters From Medea
The centre of every poem is this:
I have loved you. I have had to deal with that.
— Salma Deera, Letters from Medea (2015)”
― Letters From Medea
“The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.”
― On the Shortness of Life
― On the Shortness of Life
“William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.”
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