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To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before.
Thisquote specifically is haunting in its stark juxtaposition to the usual softness love is spoken with
“But what good is it to teach a child to count, if you don’t show him that he counts for something?”
A wonderful commentary on the state of even current educational standards
The young see the world that they wish for. The old see the world as it is.
Perhaps the real work of lovers was to hold themselves apart from theaters and train stations, from jam jars and picture frames, from all the bellicose everyday things that sought to beat one with time.
