"Comme vous êtes loin, paradis parfumé,
Où sous un clair azur tout n’est qu’amour et joie,
Où tout ce que l’on aime est digne d’être aimé,
Où dans la volupté pure le cœur se noie !
Comme vous êtes loin, paradis parfumé !"

~   Moesta et errabunda, Les fleurs du mal, Charles Baudelaire

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19th May 2013✧20:2350 notes

"Masque pâle, sans au front une pierrerie
Ni funèbre laurier au-delà de la mort,
J’ai vu vivre tes yeux, tes yeux, ô pierreries,
Et je sais le passé que ton silence dort."

~   Henri de Régnier, Poèmes anciens et romanesques 
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19th May 2013✧15:2720 notes

"Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question….
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit."

~   The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot (1888–1965).  Prufrock and Other Observations.  1920.

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15th May 2013✧21:3626 notes

"Like all dreamers I confuse disenchantment with truth."

~   Jean-Paul Sarte

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14th May 2013✧18:551,817 notes

"You have to die a few times before you can really
live."

~   Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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13th May 2013✧23:1699 notes

"I wait and ache."

~   Sylvia Plath, “Three Women”

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12th May 2013✧17:0710,860 notes

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."

~   Ernest Hemingway

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8th May 2013✧02:1516,067 notes

"She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris."

~   Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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7th May 2013✧16:24181 notes

"And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space."

~   Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
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6th May 2013✧23:27120 notes

"I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."

~   Oscar Wilde 

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5th May 2013✧22:473,622 notes

"I wish we could do something really sinful."

~   Ernest Hemingway

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29th Apr 2013✧18:46220 notes

"I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful."

~   Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out 

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28th Apr 2013✧23:28373 notes

"To be away from home and yet to feel oneself everywhere at home; to see the world, to be at the center of the world, and yet to remain hidden from the world—such are a few of the slightest pleasures of those independent, passionate, impartial natures which the tongue can but clumsily define."

~   Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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27th Apr 2013✧21:082,427 notes

"I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."

~   Vincent van Gogh
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25th Apr 2013✧23:378 notes

"I can’t think of anything but nights with you. I want them warm and silvery, when we can be together all our lives."

~   Zelda Fitzgerald

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