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  • #1
    Franz Kafka
    “I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
    Franz Kafka

  • #2
    Franz Kafka
    “I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.”
    Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

  • #3
    Paul Éluard
    “Ta voix, tes yeux, tes mains, tes lèvres,
    Nos silences, nos paroles,
    La lumière qui s’en va, la lumière qui revient,
    Un seul sourire pour nous deux,
    Par besoin de savoir, j’ai vu la nuit créer le jour sans que nous changions d’apparence,
    Ô bien-aimé de tous et bien-aimé d’un seul,
    En silence ta bouche a promis d’être heureuse,
    De loin en loin, ni la haine,
    De proche en proche, ni l’amour,
    Par la caresse nous sortons de notre enfance,
    Je vois de mieux en mieux la forme humaine,
    Comme un dialogue amoureux, le cœur ne fait qu’une seule bouche
    Toutes les choses au hasard, tous les mots dits sans y penser,
    Les sentiments à la dérive, les hommes tournent dans la ville,
    Le regard, la parole et le fait que je t’aime,
    Tout est en mouvement, il suffit d’avancer pour vivre,
    D’aller droit devant soi vers tout ce que l’on aime,
    J’allais vers toi, j’allais sans fin vers la lumière,
    Si tu souris, c’est pour mieux m’envahir,
    Les rayons de tes bras entrouvraient le brouillard.”
    Paul Éluard

  • #4
    Pablo Neruda
    “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
    Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

  • #5
    “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
    Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

  • #6
    Sylvia Plath
    “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
    I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #7
    “I killed a plant once because I gave
    it too much water. Lord, I worry
    that love is violence.”
    José Olivarez, Citizen Illegal



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