She increases her burden of self-hatred, she behaves destructively with people she loves.
Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
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“She’s so pretty when she’s reading and sleeping and laughing – she’s pretty all the time,”
— Alice Notley, from Grave of Light: Selected Poems; “September’s Book,”
You have no idea to what lengths one can go in the absence of love.
Marguerite Duras, from “The Ravishing of Lol Stein,” published c. 1964
My business is to love.
Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Mrs. Holland featured in The Letters of Emily Dickinson
I have so much
of you in my heart.
John Keats
Go outside where the world awaits you like a garden. Go outside to the roses,
Friedrich Nietzsche, from The Complete Works: “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,”
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me,
Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Henry Treece written c. May 1938
“She looked like a very wise mermaid rising out of a motley coloured sea;”
— Iris Murdoch, from “Under The Net,” published c. September 1954
“A happy ending: She agreed to love herself deeply. She was finally the sun of her own life.”
— Juansen Dizon
I’d miss a thousand sunsets just to look at your eyes.
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