Sude Akduman

“I could no longer desire physically without feeling a need for her, without suffering from her absence.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“One wants to be understood because one wants to be loved, and one wants to be loved because one loves.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day; a couple, however, does not have to put up with it. Aren’t our eyes made to be torn out, and our hearts for the same purpose? At the same time it’s really not that bad; that’s an exaggeration and a lie, everything is exaggeration, the only truth is longing. But even the truth of longing is not so much its own truth; it’s really an expression for everything else, which is a lie. This sounds crazy and distorted, but it’s true. Moreover, perhaps it isn’t love when I say you are what I love the most - you are the knife I turn inside myself, this is love. This, my dear, is love.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“But I consoled myself with the reflexion that in spite of everything she was for me the real point of intersection between reality and dream.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive