I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz, or arrow of carnations that propagate fire: I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
Pabloe Neruda, excerpt from Love Sonnet XVII
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Shadows of a Hand: The Drawings of Victor Hugo, c. 1866
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If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness, then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
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