“I will be ashes, but meaningful ashes. I will be dust, but dust in love.”
— Severo Sarduy, tr. by Suzanne Jill Levine, from “Cuba with a Song,” c. 1972
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“We never believe we’re beautiful, no matter how many times we hear it. We never believe it until someone says it in the right way.”
— Francine Prose
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“I love the rain. I love how it softens the outlines of things. The world becomes softly blurred, and I feel like I melt right into it.”
— Hanamoto Hagumi, Honey and Clover
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“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”
— Sylvia Plath
“At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”
— Pablo Neruda, Regalo De Un Poeta/ Gift Of A Poet
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“I’m only quiet because I’m worried that if you push me too far, one day I will open my mouth and I will scream so loudly, it will shatter and break the whole world.”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
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