Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are all noble pursuits, and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
— Dead Poets Society
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
I have become you, and you me,
I am the body, you soul;
So that no one can say hereafter,
That you are someone, and me someone else.
— Amir Khusrau
“When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.”
— Joan Bauer, Almost Home
One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs,
Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
— Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Jalal al-Din Rumi
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— Afghan Proverb
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Because one thing has become clear to me: you can cope with all the horror as long as you simply duck thinking about it – but it will kill you if you try to come to terms with it.
— Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
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