

“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room

“for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.”
― Turquoise Silence
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
those can be kissed
and treasured
but not held too tightly.”
― Turquoise Silence

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
― The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
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