
“Like a stone too heavy for me to move;
like a solid door which I can barely rattle and cannot open;
like a fruit-cluster hanging too high which my upward leapings can but touch with fingertips;
thus — what she can give and will not.”
Paul Valéry
more infosource: Cahiers/Notebooks, Volume 1 (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, 2000), 550.
category: inaccessible, love, withhold
medium: Notebook


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