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“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“For us of course the shared activity and therefore the companionship on which Friendship supervenes will not often be a bodily one like hunting or fighting. It may be a common religion, common studies, a common profession, even a common recreation. All who share it will be our companions; but one or two or three who share something more will be our Friends. In this kind of love, as Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth? - Or at least, "Do you care about the same truth?" The man who agrees with us that some question, little regarded by others, is of great importance can be our Friend. He need not agree with us about the answer.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Scatter?' Tate said. 'Why? We stay here. Why go anywhere else?'
'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.”
― On the Jellicoe Road
'Because we'll never know how great this place is until we leave it,' Narnie said.”
― On the Jellicoe Road
“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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