Marriage in Brighton’ describing the bride and groom as ‘a lady and gentleman of colour, whose previous history gives to the ceremony a peculiar interest, chiefly to those who have been so long and so deeply interested in the African race
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“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“And in the morning
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
they shook their pillows
violently, hoping
all the dreams they lost
that night would tumble out.”
― The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2
“In the summer
I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
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I stretch out on the shore
And think of you. Had I told the sea
What I felt for you,
It would have left its shores,
Its shells,
Its fish,
And followed me.”
―
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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