December 2011
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As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
– pablo neruda
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love letters of great men vol. 1: letter 3
I already love in you your beauty, but I am only beginning to love in you that which is eternal and ever precious- your heart, your soul. Beauty one could get to know and fall in love with in one our and cease to love it as speedily; but the soul one must learn to know. Believe me, nothing on earth is given without labour, even love, the most beautiful and natural of feelings.
Count Leo Tolstoy
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i want to move far, far away where the temperature never dips below fifty degrees and never soars above ninety. i want to have an extremely fulfilling job and a love that never burns out. i want a dog and a cat who both get along and a bike with a basket and a bell. i want to ring and ring that bell. i want to grasp the unattainable with my cold fingers and have the perseverance to hold on.
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love letters of great men vol. 1: letter 2
Maniz October 17, 1790
PS. While I was writing the last page, tear after tear fell on the paper. But I must cheer up- catch! An astonishing number of kisses are flying out- The deuce! - I see a whole crowd of them! Ha! Ha!
I have just caught three- they are delicious! You can still answer this letter, but you must address your reply to Linz Poste Restante. That is the safest course. As I do not...
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When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might...
– Florizel, A Winter’s Tale; Shakespeare
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grief
i am extremely frightened to graduate from college in 5 months. time is going to fly right by my closed eyes.
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The Ditch is dear to the Drunken man
For is it not his Bed —
His Advocate —...
– Emily Dickinson
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love letters of great men vol.1: letter 1
And I quote:
To Anne Boleyn
My Mistress and Friend,
I and my heart out ourselves in your hands, begging you to recommend us to your good grace and not to let absence lessen your affection… or myself the pang of absence is already to great, and when I think of the increase of what I must needs suffer it would be well nigh intolerable but for my firm hope of your unchangeable...
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can’t laugh when the whole thing
is...
– Bukowski
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Never, never, never, never give up.
– Winston Churchill
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there’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in
– leonard cohen