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“You are the knife I turn inside myself; that is love. That, my dear, is love.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.”
― Love Poems
― Love Poems
“But you play that passage like it's the -memory- of love. You're so young, yet you know desertion, abandonment. That's why you play that third movement the way you do. Most cellists, they play it with joy. But for you, it's not about joy, it's about the memory of a joyful time that's gone for ever.”
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“She might be a great person, but life's so much bigger than just loving someone.”
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
― Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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