- “and all i loved, i loved alone.”
- “and so being young and dipped in folly i fell in love with melancholy.”
- “believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
- “deep in earth my love is lying/ and i must weep alone.”
- “deep into that darkness peering, long i stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
- “even in the grave, all is not lost.”
- “i felt that i breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.”
- “i wish i could write as mysterious as a cat.”
- “invisible things are the only realities.”
- “never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
- “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”
- “i became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
- “we loved with a love that was more than love.”
- “i have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which i sometimes so madly indulge. it has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that i have periled life and reputation and reason. it has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
may 27 2021 ∞
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