The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Jalal al-Din Rumi
you must love life even when you have no stomach for it
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One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
― Khalil Gibran
How do we tell the sea that we are drowning on land?
I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Because one thing has become clear to me: you can cope with all the horror as long as you simply duck thinking about it – but it will kill you if you try to come to terms with it.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Yours
(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
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