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Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

Letters to Felice‎
I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Letters to Milena
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.

Diaries
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.

Letters to Milena
I�m tired, can�t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

Letters to Milena
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

Letters to Felice‎
That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!

Peter Camenzind
Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse
Love can be begged, bought, or received as a gift, one can find it in the street, but one cannot steal it.

Siddhartha
"Love must not entreat," she added, "or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract."

Demian
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