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“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
“ And
always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space. ”
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always embrace things, people earth
sky stars, as I do, freely and with
the appropriate sense of space. ”
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“In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.”
― Ignorance
― Ignorance
“I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.”
― Zorba the Greek
― Zorba the Greek
“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the woman I loved and lost, the unattainable one [...] I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.
—Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962)”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
—Henry Miller, Stand Still like the Hummingbird (1962)”
― Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
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