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“I can see your absence everywhere, in everything. I could look at a rose, but instead of seeing the rose, I see you not holding it. I look at the moonlight, and there you are, not in it.”

—Timothy Schaffert

The Swan Gondola

Lady Otomo of Sakanoue

“you’ve been mine from so long ago,”

—Pedro Salinas

—Haruki Murakami

Norwegian Wood

—E.E Cummings

—Vladimir Nabokov

Letters to Véra

— Lucie Brock-Broido

—Friedrich Nietzsche

I’m just so in love with you that there isn’t anything else.

—Ernest Hemingway

'A Farewell to Arms'

—Vladimir Nabokov

"And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer skies, when the stars are strung across the velvety night, and a shooting star streaks through the blackness turning night into day. Make a wish. Think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did."

—Simone de Beauvoir

The Woman Destroyed

—John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale (1819)

“What if we’d never met?”

“We couldn’t not have met.”

The Clock (1945)

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”

—Albert Camus

—George Seferis

from Collected Poems 1924-1955; "Stratis Thalassinos Among the Agapanthi"

“Je suis tombé amoureux de la mort, ma chère. Bien que j'aimerais que vous soyez, l'obscurité ne peut pas embrasser la lumière. Mais je peux dire au revoir à un bisou. Parce que je suis désolé de le dire, mais je ferais une belle reine de l'enfer.”

 19 Jan 2017

"I never ask anyone their opinion
because I don't give a shit"

-Rob Zombie

My first post in the quote thread and it was this dingus. He smells nice but shit noise/films.

“minestra riscaldata”

(noun) This wonderful Italian idiom and untranslatable word redefines the meaning of comfort. It is generally used to describe a phase of a romantic relationship, the post break-up reunion. Minestra riscaldata is an indication of something that has gone wrong once, but you return knowing it won’t be as “good” or “exciting” as the initiation. For example, returning with an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend for a second or third time. The literal definition, warmed up soup, depicts this sentiment well. Heating up your soup will not taste better than when it was first served. It is still delicious, and you find comfort in it, so you choose nothing new to try. Are you catching our drift here? Getting back together with your former flame will never taste as delicious as the first time, you return for its comfort; it is what you know. It is hard to ignore a food analogy that begins in the heart!

literally: re-heated/warmed up soup

—Anaïs Nin

The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Vol. 1 (1931-1934)

“…the exquisite dreaminess of the full moon,”

—Virginia Woolf

from a letter to Violet Dickinson written c. June 1907

Et il est un jour arrivé
Marteler le ciel
Et marteler la mer
Et la mer avait embrassé moi
Et la délivré moi de ma caille

À rien ne peut m'arrêter maintenant

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

Khalil Gibran

“I think pain and unhappiness are distinct and different things and it is possible to go on suffering pain without being really unhappy. Pain is something external, something that comes from without, an ephemeral accident like a physical ailment, like our present separation, like the death of a brother. Unhappiness on the other hand, although produced by pain is something within yourself which grows, develops and envelops you if you allow it to do so and do not watch out. Pain, no one can avoid but unhappiness you can overcome if you consider something worthwhile enough to live for. Perhaps I am becoming pedantic again so I shall leave it.”

— Faiz Ahmed Faiz

in a letter to his wife Alys, from his prison-cell

“You are a thousand flowers, —you are a meadow full of them—”

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

“The Lamp and the Bell,” published c. 1921