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You said ‘I love you.’ Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? ‘I love you’ is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.

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Quote from Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.

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Quote from A Girl I Knew by J.D. Salinger in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

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

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Quote from Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

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Quote from Vinegar and Oil by Jane Hirshfield in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

I want the keen edge of longing.

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Quote from Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

I loved the wilds, scorched orchards; faded shops, lukewarm drinks. I would drag myself through stinking alleys, and, eyes closed, offer myself to the sun, god of fire.

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Quote from Une Saison en Enfer (A Season In Hell) by Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

Give me Books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.

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Fanny Keats
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Quote from letter to Fanny Keats (The Letters of John Keats) by John Keats in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

I relish the physical surface of a woman, but I am importantly haunted by the ghost inside.

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Philip Dow
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Quote from introduction to his poems in Nineteen New American Poets of the Golden Gate (Philip Dow) by Jack Gilbert in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

Now who
will tell the children
fairytales? The ones where simple
crumbs over the forest
floor endure
to help us home?

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Quote from History by Jorie Graham in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()

I wanted my fate to be human.

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Quote from Like Two Negative Numbers Multiplied by Rain by Jane Hirschfield in Popular Culture - Quote published by 7 months ago ()