“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
― Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“I walked about naked and barefoot
stepping onto shards of glass
sometimes feeling it
sometimes not.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
stepping onto shards of glass
sometimes feeling it
sometimes not.”
― War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984
“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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