“Uneori, e drept, omul obosește așteptând. Și n-ați auzit, oare, de situații în care, când sosește în sfârșit ceea ce el a așteptat, sosește prea târziu? E, poate, o victorie pe care a dorit-o mult, dar, obținând-o prea târziu, nu mai are ce face cu ea; o victorie care reușește doar să-l obosească și mai mult. Și renunță la ea cu o ultimă mare tristețe deoarece nu e simplu să porți o bătălie și, ajuns la capăt, să-ți dai seama că asta a fost totul. Bătălia. A existat cândva un scop, dar de atâta așteptare scopul a murit...”
― Viața pe un peron
― Viața pe un peron
“Cine s-a ridicat împotriva tăcerii a riscat totdeauna să se facă tăcere în jurul lui.”
― Viața pe un peron
― Viața pe un peron
“You never know how the loss will come -- whether he will lose you or you him, but it is a certainty that there will be a shattering involuntary separation. Death is the abandonment caused not by betrayal but by fidelity.”
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“I drop on my back on the bed, panting and sweating. How will I survive this missing? How do others do it? People die all the time. Every day. Every hour. There are families all over the world staring at beds that are no longer slept in, shoes that are no longer worn. Families that no longer have to buy a particular cereal, a kind of shampoo. There are people everywhere standing in line at the movies, buying curtains, walking dogs, while inside, their hearts are ripping to shreds. For years. For their whole lives. I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?”
― The Sky Is Everywhere
― The Sky Is Everywhere
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
― A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
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