Since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax of thingswill never wholly kiss you;wholly to be a foolwhile Spring is in the worldmy blood approves, and kisses are a far better fatethan wisdomlady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry--the best gesture of my...
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E.e. Cummings
She’s kept her love for him as alive as the summer they first met. In order to do this, she’s turned life away. Sometimes she subsists for days on water and air. Being the only known complex life-form to do this, she should have a...
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Nicole Krauss
There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.
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Greta Garbo
The meaning of life? Is feel! Increase that sound! Tickle someone! Enjoy the warmth of the sun! Go aimlessly for 30 minutes! Only register in the heart!
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Anonymous
When we open ourselves up to feeling, we can't only open ourselves up to feeling certain things. The same is true when we shut ourselves down. The walls that guard against sadness also guard against happiness.
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Scott Stabile
More Quotes By Patricia Highsmith
I know you have it in you, Guy, " Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, "Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?" The tone hurt Therese more than the question. "I love you, Carol." "But do you see what it means?
I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.
I have a definite psychosis in being with people. I cannot bear it very long.
One blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would take two blows to kill.
