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Just want to repost and share some treasures I discovered...

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Little Prince

"Shakespeare worked without knowing that he would become Shakespeare."
-Colette

"Men are shallow...your sex organs are outside your bodies so you can’'t feel as deeply as we do...between the thrust and the spasm, it's all over for you guys. We are the fortunate ones...And biologically, we are the lucky ones. Our sex organs are inside us. So we can feel more deeply. Sex affects our entire being. It strikes us in the heart. In our very core. For us, sex and love come together. Like a two-edged sword. The day a woman enjoys her first sex-love encounter, she’'s cut in two. But the guy remains the same. He spends the night, a hundred nights, with a woman. Then he goes away. His life and body don'’t change. But a woman'’s body does. She can conceive. And carry the fruit of those hundred nights in her body. Nine months long...Look upon it as a curse or a joy. It depends on whether one is loved or not, doesn'’t it? But curse or joy, the fruit grows in her. And never quite departs from her. Not even after an abortion."

"The hamsters were still chasing each other on the merry-go-round in a perpetual circle game...No escape. One’'s fate is the cage. One’'s life and thought are predetermined by one’'s birth in the time and place."

"...each woman, a strand of coloured thread, weaving her loved ones into the fabric of her life, adding texture and colour."

"There are in our lives moments which our memories cannot recapture in words; only a recollection of fleeting fragile feelings to which we have dare not cling, in case, in our eagerness to grasp at permanence and possession, we lose the very thing which keeps alive our hopes and dreams. So we stand absorbed in the contemplation of these luminous hopes, holding our breath, because we know that fulfillment and forever do not belong to this transient world."

"And that'’s the thing about memories, fragments of social insignificance..."

"So that’s how we lose friends...through phone calls which go unanswered, through marriage, silence, and generally, through bumbling of one kind or another."


"to be without feelings
is to be safe;
to be aware,
to feel deeply
is to court danger
to oneself..."
-all quotes from Suchen Christine Lim, A Fistful of Colours

"You hold out your hand for an egg and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation: close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never mind; in time, after your hand and arm have swelled and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned a great lesson: how to endure without a sob."
-Charlotte Brontë


"They have but pieces of the earth,
I’'ve all the world in thee."
-Katherine Fowler Philips, “To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship”

"My love
knows no destination
And has no goal:
I think only
of meeting at its limit."
-Ōshīkōchī no Mitsune

"Having met you as in a dream,
I feel I would dissolve, body and soul,
Like the snow that falls,
Darkening the heavens."
-Anonymous

"You said you would not
Forget me —those were but words;
All that still remains
Is the moon which shone that night
And now has come again."
-Fujiwara no Ariie

"If it were death to love,
I should have died—
And died again
One thousand times over."
-Lady Kasa


"Wherever the bird with no feet flew
she found trees with no limbs."
-Audre Lord, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name