Valeka
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“What have I become?
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”
―
My sweetest friend;
everyone I know goes away in the end.
And you could have it all:
my empire of dirt.
I will let you down.
I will make you hurt.”
―
“But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
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