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> [Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/halld-r-laxness/human-beings-in-point-of-fact-are-lonely-by-nature-and-one-should/)

[Halldór Laxness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/halld-r-laxness/)

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> [What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-c-clarke/what-is-becoming-more-interesting-than-the-myths-themselves-has-been/)

[Arthur C. Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-c-clarke/)

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> [“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-sebold/i-wondered-if-this-longing-in-a-three-year-old-had-sparked-what-came/)

[Alice Sebold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-sebold/)

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> [In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jimmy-carter/in-a-nation-that-was-proud-of-hard-work-strong-families-close-knit-2/)

[Jimmy Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jimmy-carter/)

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> [“THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oriah-mountain-dreamer/the-invitation-by-oriah-mountain-dreamer-it-doesn-t-interest-me-what/)

[Oriah Mountain Dreamer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oriah-mountain-dreamer/)

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> [It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-twain/it-is-a-time-when-one-s-spirit-is-subdued-and-sad-one-knows-not-why/)

[Mark Twain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-twain/)

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> [Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederick-william-robertson/every-natural-longing-has-its-natural-satisfaction-if-we-thirst-god/)

[Frederick William Robertson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederick-william-robertson/)

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> [Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-kingsolver/our-holiday-food-splurge-was-a-small-crate-of-tangerines-which-we/)

[Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-kingsolver/)

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> [She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kate-chopin/she-was-still-under-the-spell-of-her-infatuation-she-had-tried-to/)

[Kate Chopin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kate-chopin/)

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> [Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-welwood/forget-about-enlightenment-sit-down-wherever-you-are-and-listen-to/)

[John Welwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-welwood/)

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> [Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/solitude-is-the-profoundest-fact-of-the-human-condition-man-is-the/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

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> [Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/toska-noun-t-sk-russian-word-roughly-translated-as-sadness/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

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> [A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/a-great-dread-fell-on-him-as-if-he-was-awaiting-the-pronouncement-of/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/but-the-longing-within-him-had-grown-even-greater-the-overpowering/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

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> [“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/s-ndor-m-rai/deep-inside-you-was-a-frantic-longing-to-be-something-or-someone/)

[Sándor Márai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/s-ndor-m-rai/)

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> [Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-browne/caught-between-the-longing-for-love-and-the-struggle-for-the-legal/)

[Jackson Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-browne/)

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> [“The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donna-tartt/the-lamplight-was-warm-and-the-apartment-still-and-snug-at-home-in/)

[Donna Tartt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donna-tartt/)

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> [“My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/india-stoker/my-ears-hear-what-others-cannot-hear-small-faraway-things-people/)

[India Stoker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/india-stoker/)

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> [The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-sense-that-in-this-universe-we-are-treated-as-strangers-the/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alain-de-botton/the-longing-provoked-by-the-brochure-was-an-example-at-once-touching/)

[Alain de Botton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alain-de-botton/)

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> [Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-dufresne/love-is-anticipation-and-memory-uncertainty-and-longing-it-s-2/)

[John Dufresne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-dufresne/)

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> [You’ll never really know how much you meant to me. My heart will be with you until the end just wait and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-ll-never-really-know-how-much-you-meant-to-me-my-heart-will-be/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/megan-rich/as-we-lifted-off-china-growing-ever-more-distant-from-the-window-seat/)

[Megan Rich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/megan-rich/)

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> [“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theophile-gautier/one-evening-he-was-in-his-room-his-brow-pressing-hard-against-the/)

[Théophile Gautier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theophile-gautier/)

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> [“The last clear thought I have is of my grandmother’s rust-colored wall clock ticking away in the darkness of my apartment—my sanctuary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-tonzelli/the-last-clear-thought-i-have-is-of-my-grandmother-s-rust-colored/)

[J. Tonzelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-tonzelli/)

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> [“A line from The Picture of Dorian Gray kept running through my head- a line which, I thought, might have been written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syrie-james/a-line-from-the-picture-of-dorian-gray-kept-running-through-my-head-a/)

[Syrie James](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syrie-james/)

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> [“The reins of our life are in the hands of the future. Man always lives today in the hope of tomorrow. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/osho/the-reins-of-our-life-are-in-the-hands-of-the-future-man-always-lives/)

[Osho](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/osho/)

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> [So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that, emerging in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-knapp/so-it-persists-for-many-of-us-hunger-channeled-into-some-internal/)

[Caroline Knapp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-knapp/)

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> [Now from his breast into the eyes the ache of longing mounted, and he wept at last, his dear wife, clear and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/homer/now-from-his-breast-into-the-eyes-the-ache-of-longing-mounted-and-he/)

[Homer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/homer/)

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> [I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jean-rhys/i-hated-the-mountains-and-the-hills-the-rivers-and-the-rain-i-hated/)

[Jean Rhys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jean-rhys/)

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> [“Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the end of the road or the cessation of hope but as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-whyte/realizing-its-inescapable-nature-we-can-see-heartbreak-not-as-the-end/)

[David Whyte](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-whyte/)

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> [“And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/khalil-gibran/and-a-woman-who-held-a-babe-against-her-bosom-said-speak-to-us-of/)

[Khalil Gibran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/khalil-gibran/)

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> [The bible never belittles disappointment, but it does add one key word: temporary - What we feel now, we will not always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-yancey/the-bible-never-belittles-disappointment-but-it-does-add-one-key-word/)

[Philip Yancey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-yancey/)

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> [It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-gaskell/it-seemed-as-though-he-gave-way-all-at-once-he-was-so-languid-that-he/)

[Elizabeth Gaskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-gaskell/)

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> [In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-rodchenko/in-order-to-educate-man-to-a-new-longing-everyday-familiar-objects/)

[Alexander Rodchenko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-rodchenko/)

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> [Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-sontag/industrial-societies-turn-their-citizens-into-image-junkies-it-is-the/)

[Susan Sontag](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-sontag/)

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> [“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-curcio/you-still-long-for-freedom-my-friend-and-that-longing-is-your-cage/)

[James Curcio](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-curcio/)

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> [“And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/delillo-don/and-you-can-glance-out-the-window-for-a-moment-distracted-by-the/)

[DeLillo Don](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/delillo-don/)

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> [...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amitav-ghosh/yet-unbeknownst-to-him-it-had-been-kept-alive-and-it-was-only-now-in/)

[Amitav Ghosh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amitav-ghosh/)

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> [“She didn’t know that my heart was a sandstorm waiting to open her skin in a desert of cuts. She didn’t know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michelle-tea/she-didn-t-know-that-my-heart-was-a-sandstorm-waiting-to-open-her/)

[Michelle Tea](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michelle-tea/)

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                        "text": "What is becoming more interesting than the myths themselves has been the study of how the myths were constructed from sparse or unpromising facts indeed, sometimes from no facts in a kind of mute conspiracy of longing, very rarely under anybody's conscious control.",
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                        "text": "“I wondered if this longing in a three-year-old had sparked what came at eight. That fuzzy feeling of difference, that her crushes on female teachers or her cousin were more real than the other girls' crushes. Hers contained a desire beyond sweetness and attention, it fed a longing, beginning to flower green and yellow into a crocuslike lust, the soft petals opening into her awkward adolescence. It was not so much, she would write in her journal, that she wanted to have sex with women, but that she wanted to disappear inside of them forever. To hide.”",
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                        "text": "In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.",
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                        "text": "“THE INVITATION by Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing. It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive. It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of future pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human. It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence. I want to know if you can live with failure, yours or mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, \"yes!\" It doesn't interest me who you know, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back. It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away. I want to know if you can be alone with your and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.”",
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                        "text": "It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.",
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                        "text": "Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.",
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                        "text": "Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily hugged each one to her chest before undressing it as gently as a doll. Watching her do that as she sat cross-legged on the floor one morning in pink pajamas, with bliss lighting her cheeks, I thought: Lucky is the world, to receive this grateful child. Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.",
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                        "text": "She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.",
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                        "text": "Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are and listen to the wind that is singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing and the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right now, not who you would like to be. Not the saint you're striving to become. But the being right here before you, inside you, around you. All of you is holy. You're already more and less than whatever you can know. Breathe out, look in, let go.",
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                        "text": "Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.",
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                        "text": "Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. \"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.",
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                        "text": "A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. \"I will take the Ring,\" he said, \"though I do not know the way.",
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                        "text": "“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and supine. Stretched out, not needing to speak, not needing to move. Not required to cope with anyone or any problem. And no one will even know where I am, he told himself. That seemed, unaccountably, very important; he wanted to be unknown and invisible, to live unseen.”",
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                        "text": "“... deep inside you was a frantic longing to be something or someone other than you are. It is the greatest scourge a man can suffer, and the most painful. Life becomes bearable only when one has come to terms with who one is, both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the world. We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going to earn us any praise, that life is not gong to pin a medal on us for recognizing and enduring our own vanity or egoism or baldness or our pot-belly. No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.”",
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                        "text": "Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.",
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                        "text": "“The lamplight was warm and the apartment still and snug. At home in bed, in my private abyss of longing, the scenes I dreamed of always began like this. I could lose myself forever in that singular little face, in the pessimism of her beautiful mouth. When I imagined these phrases cast in her voice, they were almost intolerably sweet; now, sitting right beside her, it was unthinkable that I should voice them myself.”",
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                        "text": "“My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, and shoes which are from my uncle. This is me. Just as a flower does not choose its color, we are not responsible for what we have come to be. Only once you realize this do you become free, and to become adult is to become free.”",
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                        "text": "The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.",
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                        "text": "“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives) might be influenced by the simplest and most unexamined images of happiness; of how a lengthy and ruinously expensive journey might be set in motion by nothing more than the sigh of a photograph of a palm tree gently inclining in a tropical breeze. I resolved to travel to the island of Barbados.”",
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                        "text": "Love is anticipation and memory, uncertainty and longing. It’s unreasonable, of course. Nothing begins with so much excitement and hope and pleasure as love, except maybe writing a story. And nothing fails as often, except writing stories. And like a story, love must be troubled to be interesting.",
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                        "text": "You’ll never really know how much you meant to me. My heart will be with you until the end just wait and see. I feel far from what would seem close. And close to what would seem far. When I die I don’t want you to cry. Just keep your head up high and your dreams to the sky.",
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                        "text": "“As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn between the excitement of something new and leaving that which I'd grown to love. In that moment, I understood we may never come back; that we were floating there suspended between two worlds, above the world. There was no logic in where we would go from here, nor any limitation. We had each other, and we knew now of what adaptation we were capable. Their faces flashed through my mind, and I wondered if we'd ever find a country like that again, or if we'd ever be as open with new friends, knowing now what it was like to leave them. Like a first love lost. I hoped we'd have the courage to love Germany so that the day we'd leave our hearts would also break. For what is life except that kind of attachment? And isn't it true that one can live in a place all their life, surrounded by comfort and familiarity, and never feel this longing? As the last view of China slipped off the horizon, I promised myself that I would always dare to love, squeezing Patrick's hand, and seeing that in our love for each other, we'd always have the strength to let go.”",
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                        "text": "“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees in the park, which had lost much of their russet-coloured foliage. A heavy mist obscured the distance, and the night was falling grey rather than black, stepping cautiously with its velvet feet upon the tops of the trees. A great swan plunged and replunged amorously its neck and shoulders into the smoking water of the river, and its whiteness made it show in the darkness like a great star of snow. It was the single living being that somewhat enlivened the lonely landscape.”",
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                        "text": "“Realizing its inescapable nature, we can see heartbreak not as the end of the road or the cessation of hope but as the close embrace of the essence of what we have wanted or are about to lose. […] Heartbreak asks us not to look for an alternative path, because there is no alternative path. It is an introduction to what we love and have loved, an inescapable and often beautiful question, something and someone that has been with us all along, asking us to be ready for the ultimate letting go.”",
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                        "text": "“You still long for freedom, my friend, and that longing is your cage. You do not even realize what you are missing, or what it is that you are longing for, but something in you calls out to be aware. You have become parched in the desert of apathy, and thirst for the Bacchic springs forever out of your reach. And while your highest aspects thirst for freedom, so too your basest roots thrust outwards and strangle the hopes—”",
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