Seas move away, why not lovers? The harbours of Ephesus, the rivers of Heraclitus disappear and are replaced by estuaries of silt. The wife of Candaules becomes the wife of Gyges. Libraries burn.
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I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.
Michael OndaatjeHow can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized
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A woman should never learn to sew, and is she can she shouldn't admit to it
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Because we want to know things, how the pieces fit. Talkers seduce, words direct us into corners. We want more than anything to grow and change. Brave new world.
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-I think you are inhuman. If I leave you, who will you go to? Would you find another lover?
I said nothing.
-Deny it,damn you!
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Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.
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I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself.
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This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
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...if you do not plunder the past, the absence feeds on you
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