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gplewis is frozen in time

Et ignotas animum dimittit in artes. ("And he turned his mind to unknown arts.") — Ovid, Epigraph to James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man https://t.co/63cqt9BBWc

gplewis is frozen in time

The stairs are your mentor of things to come, the doors have always been there to frighten you and invite you, and the tiny speaker in the phone is your dream-ladder to divinity. — David Whyte, "Everything Is Waiting For You" https://t.co/kwh5jXdVTy https://t.co/GHXWSOCbCy

gplewis is frozen in time

“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.” ― D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover https://t.co/54EJPFEies

gplewis is frozen in time

"The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness..." — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace https://t.co/bf4Y2R9Zap

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gplewis is frozen in time

“I was hungry. Hungry for infidelity, for adultery, for lies, hungry to die. I always have been. I always expected that one day you would descend on me. I waited for you calmly, with infinite patience. Take me. Deform me...” — Marguerite Duras, Hiroshima Mon Amour https://t.co/rwKYEvqvcJ

gplewis is frozen in time

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.” ― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs Du Mal https://t.co/S2NeslBQnH

gplewis is frozen in time

RT @so_contrary: “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar https://…

gplewis is frozen in time

“I was pushing, pushing the only thing I loved out of my life. As long as I could make believe that love lasted I was happy; I think I was even good to live with, and so love did last. But if love had to die, I wanted it to die quickly.” — Graham Greene, The End of the Affair https://t.co/jDhhPmN8Wc

gplewis is frozen in time

“He was trying to gather up the scarlet threads of life and weave them into a pattern; to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray https://t.co/CLsm1GQ0X9

gplewis is frozen in time

"...something was fucking with my movie...the one where I play an itinerant musician, unlucky at love but fabulously and unrewardingly talented; a charismatic man whose happy-go-lucky exterior covers a bruised but noble soul." — Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run