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“I just wanted to tell you that with all your faults I love you. I love or revere very few people. As for the rest, I’m ashamed of my immense indifference to them. But for those I love, nothing and no one, neither I nor certainly they themselves, can ever make me stop loving them.”
Albert Camus, from “The First Man,” originally published c. March 1994
“They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
“I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.”
— Jane Austen
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
—
Laini Taylor
“Did you ever know, dear, how much you took away with you when you left?”
— C.S. Lewis
“The saddest thing about our story is that we could have made it work. If you cared about me like I cared about you, you would have fought for me. But you didn’t. So it’s clear, i was right every time that i told you that i loved you more. You always denied it and said you loved me more, but i guess now we know.”
— 7.18pm
“The one place in which gods and demons inarguably exist, is in the human mind, where they are real in all their grandeur and monstrosity. Much of magic as I understand it in the Western occult tradition, is the search for the Self with a capital ’S’. This is being understood as being the great work, as being the gold that alchemists sought. As being the will, soul, the thing that we have inside us that is behind the intellect, the body, the dreams. The inner dynamo of us, if you like. Now, this is the single most important thing that we can ever attain, the knowledge of our own Self. And yet there are a frightening amount of people who seem to have the urge not just to ignore the Self, but actually seem to have the urge to obliterate themselves. This is horriffic, but you can almost understand the desire to simply wipe out that awareness because it’s too much of a reponsibility to actually possess such a thing as a soul, such a precious thing. What if you break it, what if you lose it? Mightn’t it be best to anesthetize it, to deaden it, to destroy it, to not have to live with the pain of struggling towards it and trying to keep it pure? I think that the way that people immerse themselves in alcohol, in drugs, in television, in any of the addictions that our culture throws up, can be seen as a deliberate attempt to destroy any connection between themselves and the responsibility of accepting and owning a higher Self and then having to maintain it.”
— Alan Moore in The Mindscape of Alan Moore
