Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince(via books-n-quotes)
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Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence…
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince(via books-n-quotes)
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Man is defined as a human being and woman is defined as a female. Whenever she tries to behave as a human being she is accused of trying to emulate the male.
- Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (via books-n-quotes)(via books-n-quotes)
Not having time for a person, not being able to sit in silence together with somebody, that’s the same as rejecting them, as being scornful about them.
- Henning Mankell, The White Lioness (via books-n-quotes)(via books-n-quotes)
I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.
- Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (via books-n-quotes)
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What a terrible feeling to love someone and not be able to help them.
- Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places (via books-n-quotes)(via books-n-quotes)
Home is people. Not a place. If you go back there after the people are gone, then all you can see is what is not there any more.
- Robin Hobb, Fool’s Fate(via books-n-quotes)
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