The Juliet Letters

I am. I was.

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“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” 

–Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Emerson’s Essays”

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“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment we’re not alone.” 

-Orson Welles

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“Where is my love life? Where can it be? There must be something wrong with the machinery” –Prince, “Computer Blue”

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“you come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” – Sam Keen, “To Love and Be Loved”

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“When a flower doesn’t bloom You fix the environment in which it grows, Not the flower” – Alexander Den Heijer, “Nothing you don’t already know”

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“Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.” -Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet: The Complete Edition”

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“The whole business of love is to drown in the sea” -Rumi

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“The sea is a desert of waves, A wilderness of water.” -Langston Hughes,  “Long Trip”

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“sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores”

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“Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse Without freedom from the past, things can only get worse” –Sting, “History Will Teach Us Nothing”

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“Nonsense prevails, modesty fails Grace and virtue turn into stupidity While calendars fades almost all barricades to a pale compromise” -Elvis Costello, “All This Useless Beauty”

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“With a taste of your lips-I’m on a ride You’re toxic- I’m slipping under With a taste of a poison paradise I’m addicted to you” - Britney Spears, “Toxic”

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“If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.” –Rumi

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“All the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.” 

-Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina”

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“To ponder wholeness or to shape debris Requires some sense of in-coherency. Since, with the tears, you sense a touch of peace Why hope that this or that or both should cease?”

-Vikram Seth, “A Cryptic Reply”

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 “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy” 

-Rumi

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“The world is full of monsters with friendly faces and angels full of scars.” 

-Ken Kaneki, “Tokyo Ghoul”