Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
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“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
“Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.”
“Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.”
“When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her part, she had invested everything in love (she had even been willing to sacrifice her parents and their peaceful existence); in turn, she had expected her partner to invest an equal amount of capital of feelings in the common account. To redress the imbalance, she gradually withdrew her emotional deposit and after the wedding presented a proud, severe face to her husband.”
“I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“I don’t feel sorry for walking away because you gave me every reason to.”
“How do people know they are sane? Can a person be gripped by lunacy, only to be released a short time later, never to relive the episode again?”
“...there remained a strange formality between them, and her pleasure in his presence felt too much like missing him had felt during the last week.”
“Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.”
“PRAYER FOR A RECOVERING CODEPENDENT”