"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea."

— Khalil Gibran

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"I wanted to tell her everything. Maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here. Maybe… if I’d said, ‘I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,’ maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there."

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

(Source: larmoyante)

"I am a part of all that I have met."

— Alfred Tennyson, The Complete Poetical Works of Tennyson

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"You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."

— Franz Kafka

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"I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."

— Jack Kerouac, On The Road

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