VDWT

“There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it’s the right unhappiness.”

“La gente pensa a noi infinitamente meno di quanto crediamo.”

“I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?”

“I know sometimes I go missing, dark, a lightless stretch of road, so I spit the road out as I go. What I’m missing isn’t a map, but the means to call again tomorrow. What I’m missing is a picture where the table’s set and all the versions of ourselves sit down to eat, and when we open our mouths, no roads or stones fall out.”

“You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded, so you are willing to argue, to overcome and be overcome, and grow richer by what you have learned, not only in the book, but in life, or by being able to make something of your work.”

It occurs to me that I can’t remember your face in any precise detail. Only how you finally walked away, your figure, your dress, these I can still see.

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