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“What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being.”

Oh ok 😭😭😭😭

“Oh, God and the Virgin, obscenity them in the milk of their filth.”

“Don’t lose the cojones for the misfortune of others”

“You will have a breath that will carry through the forest to the fascists”

“An onion is an onion is an onion”

Thanks Hemingway

Alright can something happen? We’ve been in this tent. We’ve been edging Pablo with death threats. We’ve been looking at the bridge.

Literary edging.

“And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life”

He’s making me cry and I don’t like it. He’s setting this up for some big tragedy and I’m not ready for it.

“Maria, I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.”

It’s hard to live in this world when I know love like this isn’t real. I’ve been reading this for forever but I’m actually going to finish it now.