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“I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I need is the company which a pub or a cafe will provide. I have never wanted a communion of souls. It's already hard enough to tell the truth to oneself.”
― Under the Net
― Under the Net
“The power of language. Preserving the ephemeral; giving form to dreams, permanence to sparks of sunlight.”
― Moon Tiger
― Moon Tiger
“I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight”
― Tender Is the Night
― Tender Is the Night
“Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster.”
― Fangirl
― Fangirl
“And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
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