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“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“It takes two to make an accident.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Human sympathy has its limits.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“The mind knows only what lies near the heart.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.”
― Edith Hamilton, Mythology

“Melancholia is, I believe, a musical problem: a dissonance, a change in rhythm. While on the outside everything happens with the vertiginous rhythm of a cataract, on the inside is the exhausted adagio of drops of water falling from time to tired time. For this reason the outside, seen from the melancholic inside, appears absurd and unreal, and constitutes ‘the farce we all must play’. But for an instant – because of a wild music, or a drug, or the sexual act carried to its climax – the very slow rhythm of the melancholic soul does not only rise to that of the outside world: it overtakes it with an ineffably blissful exorbitance, and the soul then thrills animated by delirious new energies”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“Everything makes love with silence.
They promised me a silence
like fire, a house of silence.
Suddenly the temple is a circus
the light a drum.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik

“their heart grew cold
they let their wings down”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“I would not think to touch the sky with two arms”
― Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski and Carl Weissner

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski