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“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I will speak of love
until you go mad
and join me
in my mad worship
of love.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Dear Milena,
I wish the world were ending tomorrow. Then I could take the next train, arrive at your doorstep in Vienna, and say: “Come with me, Milena. We are going to love each other without scruples or fear or restraint. Because the world is ending tomorrow.” Perhaps we don’t love unreasonably because we think we have time, or have to reckon with time. But what if we don't have time? Or what if time, as we know it, is irrelevant? Ah, if only the world were ending tomorrow. We could help each other very much.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“I touched you and my life stopped”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets