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HamletCaucasiaBelovedOthelloPride and PrejudiceMemoirs of a Geisha

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Fractured-Mind

To survive, you must tell stories.

I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.

Suddenly the reader’s eyes were filled with tears, and a loving voice whispered in his ear: Why are you crying if everything in that book isn’t true?
And the reader replied: I know; but what I feel is real.

moffs: —Gary Snyder, from Regarding Wave

i love you much(most beautiful darling)

more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky….

She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever—-or else swoon in death.