Poor little ego, how did you feel today? Not very well, I fear- rather bruised, sore, traumatized. Hot waves of shame, and all that. I never had any illusion she was in love with me, but I did assume she liked me.
Susan Sontag, 1/2/58 (via endymion-)
It was only now for the first time that he clearly understood what he had been unable to when he had led her out of the church after the wedding. He understood that she was not only close to him but that now he no longer knew where she ended and he began.
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via millionen)

emembee:

It is only
once in a while
that you see
someone whose
electricity
and presence
matches yours
at  that
moment

and then
usually it’s
a stranger.

-charles bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski (via dinabrains)