“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment we’re not alone.”
-Orson Welles
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“Where is my love life?
Where can it be?
There must be something wrong with the machinery”
–Prince, “Computer Blue”
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“you come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
– Sam Keen, “To Love and Be Loved”
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“When a flower doesn’t bloom
You fix the environment in which it grows,
Not the flower”
– Alexander Den Heijer, “Nothing you don’t already know”
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“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.”
-Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”
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“The whole business of love is to drown in the sea”
-Rumi
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“The sea is a desert of waves,
A wilderness of water.”
-Langston Hughes, “Long Trip”
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“sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love”
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”
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“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse
Without freedom from the past, things can only get worse”
–Sting, “History Will Teach Us Nothing”
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“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails
Grace and virtue turn into stupidity
While calendars fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise”
-Elvis Costello, “All This Useless Beauty”
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“With a taste of your lips-I’m on a ride
You’re toxic- I’m slipping under
With a taste of a poison paradise
I’m addicted to you”
- Britney Spears, “Toxic”
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“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.”
–Rumi
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“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.”
-Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”
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“To ponder wholeness or to shape debris
Requires some sense of in-coherency.
Since, with the tears, you sense a touch of peace
Why hope that this or that or both should cease?”
-Vikram Seth, “A Cryptic Reply”
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“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy”
-Rumi
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“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars.”
-Ken Kaneki, “Tokyo Ghoul”
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“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
-Desmond Morris, “The Human Zoo”
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