“I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Love
Source: "I am That." P.91.
“I am everybody and every time,
I always call myself by your name.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
Said after Dupont's capitulation at w:Bailén to the Spanish (1808), as quoted in The Art of Warfare on Land (1974) by David G. Chandler, p. 164
“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”
Sharon Shinn book Archangel
Source: Archangel
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Interview by Hubert Saal, "Dylan is Back," Newsweek (26 February 1968)
Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Source: White Teeth (2000)
Context: You hear girls in the toilets of clubs saying, 'Yeah, he fucked off and left me. He just couldn't deal with love. He was too fucked up to know how to love me.' Now how did that happen? What was it about this unlovable century that convinced us we were, despite everything, eminently lovable as a people, as a species? What made us think that anyone who fails to love us is damaged, lacking, malfunctioning in some way? And particularly if they replace us with a god, or a weeping madonna, or the face of Christ in a ciabatta roll—then we call them crazy. Deluded. Regressive. We are so convinced of the goodness of ourselves, and the goodness of our love, we cannot bear to believe that there might be something more worthy of love than us, more worthy of worship. Greeting cards routinely tell us everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all the time.