The most heartbreakingly beautiful girl I ever hope to see
Interpretation
This quote expresses a deep admiration for someone's beauty coupled with a sense of longing or loss.
Kurt Vonnegut captures the essence of unrequited love or an idealized affection with the phrase 'heartbreakingly beautiful,' suggesting that the beauty of the girl evokes intense emotion, perhaps due to the unavailability or unattainability of such beauty. This reflects how beauty can be both a source of joy and sorrow, as it can lead to feelings of longing and heartache when not reciprocated.
In practice
In a romantic letter detailing your feelings for someone special.
But by accident, not by cunning calculation, books, because of their weight and texture, and because of their sweetly token resistance to manipulation, involve our hands and eyes, and then our minds and souls, in a spiritual adventure I would be very sorry for my grandchildren not to know about.
I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.
How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.
All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
Love, the life-giving garden of this world.
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.
To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.
One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?
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