This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning.

Michael Ondaatje
This last night we tear into each other, as if...
This last night we tear into each other, as if...
This last night we tear into each other, as if...
This last night we tear into each other, as if...
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The poet and playwright, Robert Browning wrote: "This last night we tear into each other, as if to wound, as if to find the key to everything before morning." This quote speaks about the difficulty in falling in love with someone and falling in love with them again. The poet writes that he and his lover will be fighting like animals. They will be tearing at each other like they want to find the key to all happiness within themselves. The two lovers are fighting their way through each other’s hearts.

Source: Coming Through Slaughter

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