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They had reached a perfect moment of human love. They had created a moment of perfect understanding and accord. This highest moment would now remain a...more

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Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet.

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The other night we talked about literature's elimination of the unessential, so that we are given a concentrated "dose" of life. I said, almost indign...more

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Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, ...more

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Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when...more

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Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to...more

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But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

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He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.

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He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this...more

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Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the ...more

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When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, to...more

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Ali Baba protects the lovers! Gives them the luck of bandits, and no guilt, for love fills certain people and expands them beyond all laws; there is n...more

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No moment of charm without long roots in the past, no moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sor...more

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Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel.

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The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.