“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via books-n-quotes)
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“…I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”— Pablo Neruda
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