February 2012
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January 2012
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When you were as an angel in my arms, Had laid your bare head just below my chin, Your length pressed up to mine, entrusting charms My whole youth’s starward longing could not win; With still the murmur of your love in me, Miracle-tones of all my lifelong hope, I wished that there might start eternity And seal forever that sweet envelope; And as it did, my thoughts are now for you As every...
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Extinguish my sight, and I can still see you; plug up my ears, and I can still hear; even without feet I can walk toward you, and without mouth I can still implore. Break off my arms, and I will hold you with my heart as if it were a hand; strangle my heart, and my brain will still throb; and should you set fire to my brain, I still can carry you with my blood.
-Rainer Maria Riike
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What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one...
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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July 2011
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June 2011
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When humility delivers a man
from attachment to his own words
and his own...
– Thomas Merton. Thank you, The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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Death does not come with old age, but with forgetting.
May 2011
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But now we see through a glass darkly and, the truth, before it is revealed to...
– Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via no-rhythm)
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I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.
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I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.
-Brian Andreas, Story People
April 2011
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You were careful not to say those words that soon became our private altar. I had said them many times before, dropping them like coins into a wishing well hoping they would make me come true. I had said them many times before but not to you. I had given them as forget-me-nots to girls who should have known better. I had used them as bullets and barter.
-Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
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Not that you lied to me, but that I no longer believe you, has shaken me.
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“Are you anything akin to me, do you think, Jane?” I could risk no sort of answer by this time; my heart was full. “Because,” he said, “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are near to me, as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the...
March 2011
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Maybe yes, and maybe no, You may have it as you please, Since I choose to keep you so, Suppliant on your curious knees.
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February 2011
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so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me....
– pablo neruda
December 2010
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November 2010
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