“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”

—Zelda Fitzgerald

“I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who have never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, and feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even warriors doubt the existence of God. Such people can say with pride: "I have never lost a battle." On the other hand, they can never say: "I have won a battle." Not that they care. They live in a universe in which they believe they are invulnerable; they close their eyes to injustices and suffering; they feel safe because they do not have to deal with daily challenges faced by those who risk stepping out of their own boundaries. They have never heard the words "good-bye" or "I've come back. Embrace me with the fervor of someone who, having lost me, has found me again.”

—Paulo Coelho. Manuscript Found in Accra

“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

—Edna St. Vincent Millay.

“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time your breathe out.”

—Andrea Gibson

“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. ”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I hate careless people. That's why I like you.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Oh, love isn't there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.”

—Hermann Hesse, Wer lieben kann, ist glücklich. Über die Liebe
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