"under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and I think we pitied ourselves that night, as if we were other people looking down on the couple who lay together on the bed"

-- Siri Hustvedt

#Couple Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Night Quotes

“The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.”
“How many of you guys, in your own experience with women, have learned that no means yes if you know how to spot it?”
“I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.”
“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”
“I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.”
“Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.”
“The world is the same everywhere.”
“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.”

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