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“Love is a trap. When it appears, we see only its light, not its shadows.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Love is like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day, you want more. You’re not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things. You think about the person you love for two minutes, and forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he’s not there, you feel like an addict who can’t get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you’re willing to do anything for love.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Life takes us by surprise and orders us to move toward the unknown -even when we don't want to and when we think we don't need to.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you.”
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