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“I did not yet love, and I loved to love; I sought what I might love, in love with loving.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Jokes and folklore and poetic metaphor, the wisdom of folly, tell the secret truth.”
― Norman O. Brown, Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“The snow is coming," she said. "Soon it will be snow time. Together then as in other snow times. Drinking busthead 'round the fire. Truth is a locked room that we knock the lock off from time to time, and then board up again. Tomorrow you will hurt me, and I will inform you that you have done so, and so on and so on. To hell with it. Come, viridian friend, come and sup with me.”
― Donald Barthelme, Amateurs

“The tattoo on the kid’s right tricep is a spear-pierced heart over the hideous name MILDRED BONK, who Bruce G. told him was a ray of living light and a dead ringer for the late lead singer of The Fiends in Human Shape and his dead heart’s one love ever.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest