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The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.
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Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.
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When you think you are in love, you don't want to know about the things that could end it.
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It's not that photography recaptures the world you have been in; more that it creates a new one: photographs are like Post-It Notes reminding us of the deep architectonic forms of space and thought.
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If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.
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Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.
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You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.
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The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.
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Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.
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Comfort is beauty muted by heroin. Sadness is beauty drained by lack of it.
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I learnt too late that what is most important to us is always most precious at the moment it occurs, and it is precious in its absolute immediacy and not as some vague confirmation of future directions; since the only certain fact, aside from death, is the flimsiness of everything.
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What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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Born:
1962
(age 62)
Bio:
Luke Davies is an Australian writer of poetry, novels and screenplays.
Known for:
Candy (2006)
Nobody Knows (2009)
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