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“While I'm writing, I'm far away;
and when I come back, I've gone.”
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and when I come back, I've gone.”
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“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
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only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.”
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“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
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