"Passion out of passion's obstacles.












What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?

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"The inside and the outside of our lives are each the shell where we learn to live.
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"Be with someone you don't want to be without.
"your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now yo...
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"The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.
"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.
"The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
"Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A sec...
"What you think is the heart might well be another organ.
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