"We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
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"-Before leaving my room i turn, and (stooping through the morning) kiss this pillow, dear where our heads lived and were."
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"There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immobile. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the night, until, exhausted, we fell into bed. We lay in each other's arms, still awkward but happy, exchanging breathless kisses into sleep."
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"God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white,-- I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty, glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light."
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"When lovers kiss on the cheeks, it is because they are searching, feeling for one another's lips. Lovers are made by a kiss."
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"She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies."
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"A kiss from my mother made me a painter."
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"Two people kissing always look like fish."
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"Do not the bright June roses blow To meet thy kiss at morning hours?"
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"What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure."
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"My prophecy is but half his journey yet, For yonder walls, that pertly front your town, Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, Must kiss their own feet."
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"There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other."
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"But when I do feel all the strength go out of me, and I fall to my knees beside the table and I think I cry, then, or at least I want to, and everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more."
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"For a few minutes we kiss, deep in the chasm, with the roar of water all around us. And we rise, hand in hand, I realize that if we had both chosen differently, we might have ended up doing the same thing, in a safer place, in gray clothes instead of black ones."
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"Come in the evening, or coming in the morning/Come when you're looked for, or come without warning/Kisses and welcomes you'll find here before you/And the oftener you come here the more I'll adore you."
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"Getting up at three in the morning to watch Michael Jordan, I never dreamed one day I would be kissing that trophy."
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"From the moment I laid eyes on you I couldn't stop looking at you. From the moment we talked I couldn't stop arguing with you. From the moment we kissed I couldn't stop kissing you. And from the moment we shared our hopes, fears and insecurities I couldn't stop loving you."
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"A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger."
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"When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!"
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"Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself."
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