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Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned   (via goldfrankincensemyrrh)
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If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

— John Steinbeck on falling in love  (via pax-caelestis)
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[He was alive.] Never had he known it with such intensity.

— Martin Page, from The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection, trans. by Bruce Benderson (via the-final-sentence)
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modernhepburn:

Yes, you.
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