“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
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“The word 'translation' comes, etymologically, from the Latin for 'bearing across'. Having been borne across the world, we are translated men. It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling, obstinately to the notion that something can also be gained.”
― Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
― Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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