M.attie

“Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes”

“We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.”

“What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.”

“Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.”

“I was in love again. I was in trouble”

“one more creature
dizzy with love”

“I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”

“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”

“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”

“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”