Bonsai of Thoughts (Translated)

Thoughts in Bonsai: One Hundred Ninety-Six

1. Learn to love
without asking for anything in return,
if you don't want to suffer.

2. The sea washes away from its shore
all the footprints of separated lovers.
All their sorrow lies upon the sea's breast.

3. Everything is strange.
Life. People. The world.
Don't be afraid to be strange.

4. When you're busy with work,
I secretly watch you.

5. Before going to sleep I drink lots of coffee,
so that I won't even mistakenly think
I'm sleeping peacefully having lost you.

6. I can't remember
the last time I danced with joy.
I want to murder those people
who keep humans melancholy.

7. The worst thing about love is
even after the beloved leaves,
all memories return and keep returning.

8. The one I love
loves someone else.
Couldn't my life be like a story or film?

9. One day you'll understand
you never really loved me.

10. About myself I know only this:
I love to write and to make love.

11. I know being with me makes you sad.
I'm sorry, because I can't live without you.

12. As much as I love you,
do you love him
that much?

13. Forgive me.
I never thought
you would fall in love with me.

14. Don't want to live with me.
My life is too chaotic.
Don't misunderstand me.
I plead like this because I love you.

15. I live in my creations,
not in life.
This is my only limitation.

16. Is it right to use someone
for your own happiness?
If they ever kill you,
will you be upset then?

17. Where childhood ends,
there imagination begins.
What people lose,
they search for in imagination.

18. I am simultaneously
happy and unhappy.

19. Be careful about getting close
to one whose heart has been broken.
They will want an answer for your every step.

20. On the other side
of every beautiful thing
clings
sorrow.
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