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August Strindberg
“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy
tags: distance, nearness, relationships
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Paul Celan
“With wine and being lost, with
less and less of both:

I rode through the snow, do you read me
I rode God far--I rode God
near, he sang,
it was
our last ride over
the hurdled humans.

They cowered when
they heard us
overhead, they
wrote, they
lied our neighing
into one of their
image-ridden languages.”
― Paul Celan, Glottal Stop
tags: god, language, nearness, poetry, wine
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Kamand Kojouri
“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love,
I am intoxicated beyond recognition.
Now, I only pray for the nearness of You
so I may advance in my annihilation.”
― Kamand Kojouri
tags: advance, annihilation, beloved, dervish, dregs, drink, drunk, faith, give-in, god, god-is-love, intoxicate, intoxicating, intoxication, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, love, love-is-love, love-wins, lover, nearness, one-love, pray, recognition, religion, religious, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, sufism, sufism-poems, sufism-quotes, surrender, togetherness, transcend, transcendence, union, unity
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Margaret Feinberg
“Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.”
― Margaret Feinberg, Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God
tags: christian, god, nearness
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Mladen Đorđević
“After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje
tags: distance, love-quotes, nearness, past, present, price, relationship
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Jeanette Winterson
“Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time
tags: being-alone, closeness, introverts, nearness, people, relationships, solitude
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Will Advise
“Nothing brings home closer than going home...”
― Will Advise
tags: closeness, home, nearness, nostalgia, nothing, relativeness, relatives, reunions, travel, visiting
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Fernando Pessoa
“To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lost the human heart that makes him love perfection. In awe we worship the impulse to perfection of great artists. We love their approximation to perfection, but we love it because it is only an approximation.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
tags: irony, nearness, perfection
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Franz Kafka
“Since I met you, I’ve felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle
tags: nearness
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