“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.”
― The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
― The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
“Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.”
― Little Women
― Little Women
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
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