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“The only women you can continue to love are those you lose.”

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Joris-Karl Huysmans was a French novelist known for his exploration of themes such as decadence and aestheticism. His most celebrated novel, 'À la recherche du temps perdu', is regarded as a masterpiece of French literature. more

“At the break of dawn I wake up mesmerized to the vision of you walking towards me Fresh out of the shower shirtless, with wet hair and in your unbuttoned jeans I ache for a kiss as I put away the cigarette hanging loosely on your lips And in the moment when your lips touch mine I realize there is no way I am making it out of these sheets or Paris”

Sex Love Quotes Lovers Longing Lust Sensual Love Poems Poetry Romance

Book:Loveish

Source: Loveish

“As long as water is there, two banks accompany each other for a period perpetual.”

Love Company Eternity Longing Bonding Each Other River Banks

Book:Simalko Geet

Source: Simalko Geet

“Our eyes see the future we desire And if yearning is enough, turn blind entire To any threats that challenge our hope. Oh, how small indeed is Reality's scope.”

Reality Longing Romance Book Quotes Unrequited Love Blindness Hints In Love Crushes Expectations Vs Reality Motivated Reasoning

Book:Can I Tell You Something?

Source: Can I Tell You Something?

“I hope someone will be lost without me someday.”

Love Longing Lost Love

Book:How It Ends

Source: How It Ends

“Her golden throated scent like pastry soaked in milk hovered, her wet reptile mouth gave kisses seen only in the mind, raised and heightened to altars of breezy hate. With a glowing white back-light, pastel images in soft focus moved, danced, in a contorted frenzy, part of a bitter hued blue smoking reverie.”

Love Pain Poetry Sex Longing Betrayal Faithless

Book:Blue Reverie in Smoke: Collected Poems 2001-2016

Source: Blue Reverie in Smoke: Collected Poems 2001-2016

“I think all cultural epochs are characterised by these two modes, the existence of a future and the absence of a future, and the strange thing is that culture seems to strive towards the absence of future, as if that were the highest form, when all longings have been fulfilled, but it isn't, because then longing turns towards the past, or towards something else that has been lost or was never accomplished.”

Regret Longing

Book:Om vinteren

Source: Om vinteren

“What separates self from the flutter of longing?”

Poetry Longing Granted Mary Szybist

Book:Granted

Source: Granted

“My only enemy is the miles of distance that's there between us, my favorite place is the road that leads me to you - the long road home”

Missing Longing Distance Long Distance Love Long Distance Relationships Ldr

Book:ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

Source: ANAMIKA: BEYOND WORDS

“Everything is in front of me But my gaze is lost And I can't wake up Because I never had The things I mostly wanted But nothing lasts forever And the day I long for will come”

Life Wisdom Poetry Spirituality Lost Fantasy Magic Mystery Longing Mysticism

Book:Rose: Future Heart

Source: Rose: Future Heart

Quote by Joris-Karl Huysmans

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