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“And then one student said that happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you can't even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that you're almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And it's that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull what's warm - whether it's something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep, that's happiness.”
― Design Flaws of the Human Condition
― Design Flaws of the Human Condition
“Satin skin, silk hair, velvet eyes, sawdust heart - all complete.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
― The life, letters and writings of Charles Lamb Volume 3
“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
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