“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
― Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. ”
― The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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