“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
— Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code (via coral)
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“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
― William Shakespeare
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Roland Barthes
“Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.”
— Roland Barthes, “Talking,” in A Lover’s Discourse
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving…
John Keats
“You are a secret beyond dreams.”
— Adonis, from ‘Transformations of the Lover’, The Pages of Day and Night (trans. Samuel Hazo)
“I’ll never finish falling in love with you.”
— Nicole Williams, Collared
(via moanables)
“Ah, it hurts, loving you so much, so fiercely much!”
— Albert Camus, State of Siege (via acknowledgetheabsurd)
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