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"At the end of this day there remains what remained yesterday and what will remain tomorrow: the insatiable, unquantifiable longing to be both the same and other."
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"The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are."
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"I wished it was raining,' he said.'I don't need the rain,' I said. 'I need you."
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"What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back."
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"Her need was as big as the stars, and he was down there on the beach, so quiet she could hardly hear him."
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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 intersection and to plead once more for understanding."
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"Why does anything cling to something? Maybe they love wherever they're going so much that it's worth it. Maybe they'll keep coming back, until there's only one star left. Maybe that one star will make the trip forever, out of the hope that someday-if it keeps coming back often enough-another star will find it again."
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"I knew he wouldn't come, but I howled anyway, and when I did, the other wolves would pass images of him to me of what he looked like: lithe, gray, yellow-eyed. I would pass back images of my own, of a wolf on the edge of the woods, silent and cautious, watching me. The images, clear as the slender-leaved trees in front of me, made finding him seem urgent, but I didn't know how to begin to look."
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"His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him."
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"Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!"
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"With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?"
Mystery
"I love you in order to begin loving you,to start infinity againand never to stop loving you:that is why I do not love you yet."
Love
"Every day you play with the light of the universe."
Wonder
"Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly."
Philosophy
"You will fall with me as a stone in the grave."
Death
"I have named you queen.There are taller than you, taller.There are purer than you, purer.There are lovelier than you, lovelier.But you are the queen.When you go through the streetsNo one recognizes you.No one sees your crystal crown, no one looksAt the carpet of red goldThat you tread as you pass,The nonexistent carpet.And when you appearAll the rivers soundIn my body, bellsShake the sky,And a hymn fills the world.Only you and I,Only you and I, my love,Listen to it."
Romance
"To harden the earththe rocks took charge:instantlythey grew wings:the rocksthat soared:the survivorsflew upthe lightning bolt,screamed in the night,a watermark,a violet sword,a meteor.The succulentskyhad not only clouds,not only space smelling of oxygen,but an earthly stoneflashing here and therechanged into a dove,changed into a bell,into immensity, into a piercingwind:into a phosphorescent arrow,into salt of the sky."
Transformation
"Love brought its tail of pains,its long static beam of thorns,and we close our eyes so that nothing,so that no wound will separate us."
Romance
"My beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body."
Romance
"Soy el desesperado, la palabra sin ecos, el que lo perdiA2 todo, y el que todo lo tuvo."
Emotion
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