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little prince

But on your tiny planet, my little prince, all you need to do is move your chair a few steps. You can see the day end and the twilight falling whenever you like…
“One day,” you said to me, “I saw the sunset forty-four times!”
And a little later you added:
“You know--one loves the sunset, when one is so sad…”
“Were you so sad, then?” I asked, “on the day of the forty-four sunsets?”
But the little prince made no reply.
Little Prince 

burning memories

'The past in Zagreb was underfoot: a soft, thick carpet of leaves, soggy from rain, that my feet sank in and out of, confusing with the present. Leaving the railway station, I walked through the curtains of fog tinted yellow by coal fires, the chemical equivalent of burning memories.'

Robert D. Kaplan, Balkan Ghosts

Brna

'Nothing can touch us here,' she said.

She was almost right... 

love stories

she got pregnant when she was 18

he promised to marry her, they were in love

he went on a business trip to another country

he got a wife

she got a daughter

they had three sons

he also had a drinking and hitting problem

they were together for 45 years

 

they fell in love last year of high school

when the baby was 4 he left

a year later he came back

we never talked about that year
14 years later he left again
he didn' come back

to my parents
who taught me love

reductionism

(she) was always flustered and always trying to confine things into the shape of a phrase, like pouring water into a ewer, but great gouts of meaning and implication invariably ran over and slopped about and were lost.

Vita Sackville-West

this corner of the earth

Like every humming bird and bumblebee
Every sunflower, cloud and every tree
I feel so much a part of this
...
This corner of the earth is like me in many ways
I can sit for hours here and watch the emerald feathers play
On the face of this I'm blessed
When the sunlight comes for free
I know this corner of the earth it smiles at me

Jamiraquai

to you

to the place that has been my home
and to you who have been my family

with love