"The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound."

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Source : Maureen Duffy (1969). “Wounds”

Maureen Duffy

#Love Quotes #Pain Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Walk out,â€ he repeated. â€œWe need to talk.â€ â€œAbout how you need to sacrifice me to get a human body?â€ I asked, my tone light, my insides feeling leaden. â€œThat might be cute if you thought it was true.”
“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
“Like my daddy always said, where there's a way, there's a will.”
“A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.”
“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing
“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

Source : "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.
“My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.”
“The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.”

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