People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.
— Philip Roth
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Whoa, whoa! - said Esther Longtree - but nothing could tether grief, for it wandered over the widest pasture man might ever know.
— Marguerite Young
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
— Doris Lessing
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I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.
— Anna Kavan
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Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
— Annie Ernaux
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I think of beauty as something that dies; either it's destroyed by time or stupidity or I have only a moment to experience it, and then only memory after that; even if i can return and look again, I can't quite manage to get back the moment.
— Michael Cisco
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Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
— Marylenne Robinson
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There seems to be an inborn drive in all human beings not to live in a steady emotional state, which would suggest that such a state is not tolerable to most people. Why else would someone succumb to the attractions of romantic love more than once?
— Thomas Ligotti
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
— Paul Auster
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