You are the reason for living,
Paul Celan, from a letter to Ingeborg Bachmann written c. October 1957
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In this moonlight state of mind, forlorn and yet euphoric, I went on weeping.
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, “Kesa and Moritō”
You, memory,
almost weightless
this morning inside me.
Jane Hirshfield, from The Beauty: Poems; “My Memory,”
(via violentwavesofemotion)
(via violentwavesofemotion)
Daydreams were what kept me going, day after day, and I had no right to them.
Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night; “A Polygamous Casanova,”
“Daydreams were what kept me going, day after day, and I had no right to them.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night; “A Polygamous Casanova,”
At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself.
Françoise Sagan; Bonjour Tristesse
“I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.”
— J.D. Salinger (via quotemadness)
I only breathe, I only speak, I only move, I only act, thinking of you.
Victor Hugo, from a letter to Adèle Foucher written c. Aril 1820
Forgive me: I am gloomy and boring.
Anna Akhmatova, from Latest Letter [translated by Judith Hemschemeyer]
She’s the most beautiful thing in the world to me, the dearest and—the most difficult to understand.
The sound of her step enchants me, her changeful eyes dispense happiness—and trouble.
She’s like Destiny itself, she never hesitates.
Colette, tr. by Maire Kelly, from Selected Stories; “Barks and Purrs,”
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