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"Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next."

-Virginia Woolf , The Waves-

(When you burn two matches leaning against each other, it gives rise to a tragiromantic dance.)

"I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."

_A Happy Death, Albert Camus_

"When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears."

_A Happy Death, Albert Camus._

(Artworks by Clive Smith.)

You, I and Us:

You mistake my mouth for a

Trap or a reeking graveyard,

And I take take yours for a

Phenomenon,

And a pleasant flowerbed.

You see in me what you escape in

Yourself,

And I see in you what I want in

Myself.

There's a you in I

And there's an I in you,

But what we need is to work on Us.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac

It's not about love. It's about loving, the ability to be able to love constantly, frequently, regularly. It's about the quality you put into the action. I know you are capable of love, but are you able to loving? Love is primordial. It exits before you do, it is happening now as we read this, somewhere in many ways and colours. It's not about love, it's about how willing, how ready you are to act on loving. Think less of love as a noun and more as a verb and the answer will come to the tip of your tongue.

@kafkaesquebibliomaniac