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When there is nothing left to love, the heart eats inward.

Christian Wiman, from Every Riven Thing

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I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.

— Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre.

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I am the ocean; the earth; whatever dies for you.

— Alice Notley, from In The Pines: Poems; "The Black Trailor (A Noir Fiction)

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They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon

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I can't exactly describe how I feel, but it's not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Stab me in the heart before you go. Because, I can live only in the graveyard without you.

- Anamika

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There is an Arabic poetry which goes ;

"It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you."

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"But I wake up this morning, and suddenly it's December."

"It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready."

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In english we say "Not meant to be"

But in poetry we say:

"I was the Sunshine, She woke up late.

She was the Moon, I slept early."

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The past beats inside me like a second heart.

- John Banville, from The Sea

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I love water, but I cannot swim. What a tragic way of saying " I love you, but I cannot survive you."

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I have done nothing all summer but wait for myself to be myself again.

- from Georgia O'Keeffe's letter to Russel Vernon Hunter

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" Hum bane the tabah hone ko, tera milna to ek bahana tha"

I was created to be destroyed, meeting you was merely an excuse.

- Jaun Elia

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Before you die, experience the love of a writer, poet or painter.

If you’re lucky enough to be an artist’s muse, they will immortalize you.

- Soledad Francis

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"In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace."

"आफतों के दौर में चैन की घड़ी है तू।"

- Nasir Kasmi

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In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.

- Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays