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“Willing or not, we are all hostages of the joy of which we deprive ourselves. Here springs love’s pre-eternal sadness.”
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
― Open Papers - Selected Essays
“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”
― Notebooks 1935-1942
― Notebooks 1935-1942
“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone and what are they, if not bloody sacrifices on the alter of monogamy”
― Essays and Aphorisms
― Essays and Aphorisms
“The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.”
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“I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
“I know,” she says.
“Because if it isn’t a love story, then what is it”? I look to her glassy eyes, her face of wide open empathy. “It’s my life,” I say. “This has been my whole life.”
― My Dark Vanessa
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