“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide”
― Success and Happiness - Quotes to Motivate Inspire & Live by
― Success and Happiness - Quotes to Motivate Inspire & Live by
“I should be working and not writing you. But this is a missing you, where are you, hello and necessary for my soul.”
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
“I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.”
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
― A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
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