Thoughts on { Love | Pedro Calderon de la Barca / Oscar Wilde / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry / Julio Cortázar / Charles Dickens / Sylvia Plath / Emily Brontë / Albert Einstein / Margaret Atwood, 1681-1986
Norah Borges, Pablo y Virginia, 1927
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but
in looking outward together in the same direction.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Airman’s Odyssey, 1942
“When love is not madness it is not love.”
Pedro Calderon de la Barca, 1600-1681
“Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love,
Love will make us.”
Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch, 1963
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose
that makes your rose so important.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943
“Never close your lips to those whom
you have already opened your heart.”
Charles Dickens, Pictures from Italy, 1844-45
“Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever
heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me.
I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy.
Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind,
my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.”
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals, 1963
“I’m not sentimental–I’m as romantic as you are. The idea,
you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will
last–the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that
they won’t.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, 1920
“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only
do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!
Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life!
I can not live without my soul!”
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, 1847
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”
Margaret Atwood, Variation on the Word Sleep, 1976-86
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.”
Albert Einstein, Letter to Fred Wall, 1933
“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Oscar Wilde, 1893
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Thoughts on { Flirt | Victor Hugo / Milan Kundera / Ivan Turgenev / Marjane Satrapi / Charlotte Brontë
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