Thursday, 5 May 2011

In absence

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists. When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."



2 comments:

  1. Who said that? Because it's pretty much exactly what I think of it as, perfect quote.

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  2. Edmond and Jules De Goncourt. P sent it to me in first yr.

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