Avoidance

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•  'And what would humans be without love?'
•  Rare, said Death.

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life." 

Walt Whitman  (via shesinacoma)

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"All night long the beauty turned over from her right side to her left and her left to her right, and could not fall asleep… She reviled herself almost aloud; grew peaceful; made up her mind to think of nothing—and kept thinking all the time. She was in perfect fever, and by the morning head over ears in love with him." 

Nikolai Gogol, Christmas Eve

"Thou camest oft in vision to me;
Wert dear, although I knew not thee;
Thy tones reverberated through me,
Thy gaze absorbed, enchanted me
Long since… But no, I was not dreaming!
Straight, when though camest, not in seeming,
I knew thee, I took fire, stood numb
And my heart told me, “He is come!" 

A.S. Pushkin, Evgeny Onegin (transl. by Oliver Elton)

"Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love." 

Persuasion, Jane Austen

 by E. E. Cummings

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"I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched." 

Edgar Allan Poe (via atramentum)

"They understood each other so well that they shifted in tandem, from anger to amusement in seconds. In an attempt to convince Zelda that she was “just an old schizophrenic”, Scott told an episode that had occurred when they were out riding. When Zelda denied the incident, Fitzgerald shrugged it off by saying, “Maybe it was an schizophrenic horse”, at which Zelda broke into laughter, declaring, “Oh, Scott, that’s really good, that’s priceless" 

Sometimes Madness Is Wisdom. Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald: A Marriage by Kendall Taylor (via pommegranate)

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