“The grand highway is crowded with lovers
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness”
― Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
and searchers
and leavers
so eager to please, and to forget. Wilderness”
― Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1
“...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex
“The gesture of rejection with which I was forever met did not mean: 'I do not love you,' but: 'You cannot love me, much as you would like; you are unhappily in love with your love for me, but your love for me is not in love with you.' It is consequently incorrect to say that I have known the words, 'I love you'; I have known only the expectant stillness that should have been broken by my 'I love you,' that is all that I have known, nothing more.”
― Diaries, 1910-1923
― Diaries, 1910-1923
“Tell your secret to the wind, but don’t blame it for telling the trees.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
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