𝒥𝙖𝙬 𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚

“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

“One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”

The most haunting woman is the one we cannot find in the crowded café when we are looking for her, the one that we must hunt for, and seek out through the disguises of her stories.

“Touch has a memory.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of everything 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 was dissolving — I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you... I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it — I shudder no more — I could be martyr'd for my religion — love is my religion — I could die for that — I could die for you.

“I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.”

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.