feet covered in cut flowers

talesofpassingtime:

“Love—and all it’s complicated ramifications, Draeger believed—actually does conquer all; Love—or the Fear of Not Having It, or the Worry about Not Having Enough of It, or the Terror of Losing It—certainly does conquer all.”

—

Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion   

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entropy-entropy:

“Why is it that when communication becomes blunt, lucid, simple, it inevitably becomes the means by which falsehoods are conveyed? And why is it that when communication is subtle, complex, deep, agonizingly thorough, it cannot be translated into any terms other than its own original terms?”

— Joyce Carol Oates, from a journal entry dated c. August, 1977
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honeyfleshed:

“Love loves to return, to bring back to the origin, to begin loving from the first instant, love wants to love everything,”

— Hélène Cixous, from Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing; “Poetry, Passion and History,”
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