Whether you believe you can, or you believe you cannot, you are correct.
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“No, I will not be reconciled.
My curses are the truth.
I will not forgive,
I will not fall into embraces of iron.”
—Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius “No, I Will Not Be Reconciled”
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“how passionate, how wild”
—Sophocles The News of Orestes’ Death
“Electra”
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“It's hard to have patience with people who say,
'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter'
There is death. And whatever is matters.
And whatever happens has consequences,
and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible.”
—C. S. Lewis “A Grief Observed”
originally published c. 1961
“Toda fragmentada.
Y, sin embargo, troceada, fragmentada, el cuerpo y el alma, cada uno tirando por su lado,
la creación que me reclama, el fuego que me llama, agua y aire, en todos los planos.
Florezco, lloro, beso, amo, deseo.”
—Anaïs Nin Diarios amorosos: Fuego
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“but her softest wise words are deathless.”
—Parmenion “The Greek Antholohy and Other Ancient Epigrams”
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“Violent of heart, tempest-transfixed, unbending, proud.”
—Anna de Noailles “Meditation”
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“I never did imagine
That one can love and grieve like this.”
—Nikolai Gumilyov “The Tram that Lost Its Way”
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"When I'm wrong, I say I'm wrong." - Dr. Jake Housman in Dirty Dancing.
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“She touches what she loves,
and then it only burns again
and makes her want to name it something more.”
—Andrea Hollander Budy “When She Named Fire”
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“I like to think that dying is like falling
all the way back to where everything’s
held to itself by memory.”
—Fleda Brown “Makeup Regimen”
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“Punish my lips with yours.”
—Strato “The Greek Antholohy and Other Ancient Epigrams”
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“I held you, or I never held you,
or I held you briefly, once, long ago,
and you kissed me while my heart kept time.”
—Kelly Cherry “First Marriage”
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“Her ghostly beauty, her heart of ice and hurricane,”
—Anna de Noailles “A Bride”
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“To deserve my grief”
—Cemal Süreya “Couplets”
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A quote often seen by above...
"Never Ever"
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“My love,
you are in my heart.”
—Sergey Yesenin “Goodbye, My Friend”
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“you're devilishly handsome,
With such a lovable, sweet truthfulness.”
—Sergey Yesenin “To Kachalov’s Dog”
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“For a long time, not a year, not two, my soul is half-alive,
but my heart goes on,”
—Valentin Katayev “For a Long Time”
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“The kisses on her eyes,
him sleeping on her breast,
his restless breath,”
—Pavel Antokolsky “Ballad of the Wondrous Moment”
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“she died of love...”
—Lale Müldür “Virgin Mary’s Smoke”
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“Excitable, magnetic, and loyal.”
—Linda Gray Sexton “Searching For Mercy Street:
A Journey Back To My Mother, Anne Sexton”
