“I’m so eager to see you again, but I wouldn’t ask to see you. Not because I’m proud. In fact, in front of you, I cede all my pride. Yet only if you asked to see me, our meeting would be meaningful to me.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren
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“That’s all I want. Just you and me. Always.”
— Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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“It’s a question I often ask myself: what would I do with me? And I don’t know the answer. I don’t know what I’d do, except run away.”
— Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards (via books-n-quotes)
Aries: “It is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
Taurus: “So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
Gemini: “We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.”
Cancer: “The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.”
Leo: “Masks, agonies, resurrections; will weave and unweave my life”
Virgo: “Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
Libra: “Two souls don’t find each other by simple accident.”
Scorpio: “I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.”
Sagittarius: “Seek for the pleasure of seeking, not of finding.”
Capricorn: “Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.”
Aquarius: “In my next life I will try to commit more errors.”
Pisces: “It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”
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