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#1

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

tags: march, summer, sun, wind, winter

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#2

“I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#3

“When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: words

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#4

“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: death, friendship, pain

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#5

“I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#6

“I was always going to the bookcase for another sip of the divine specific.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: learning, reading

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#7

“I am not one and simple, but complex and many.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

tags: existence, identity

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#8

“The moment was all; the moment was enough.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#9

“I have made up thousands of stories; I have filled innumerable notebooks with phrases to be used when I have found the true story, the one story to which all these phrases refer. But I have never yet found the story. And I begin to ask, Are there stories?”
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#10

“I have to return some videotapes”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: american, bale, bret, christian, easton, ellis, funny, humor, psycho, return, videotapes

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#11

“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: behavior, evil, personality

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#12

“This is not an exit.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#13

“I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not even a beat.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

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#14

“It strikes me profoundly that the world is more often than not a bad and cruel place.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

tags: american, american-psycho, conclusion, crime, cruel, demons, epiphany, evil, gore, horror, human-beings, human-nature, humanity, humans, life, living, murder, murderer, murderers, psycho, psychopath, quote, serial-killer, serial-killers, society, the-world, theory

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#15

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything - what a waste!”
― Andre Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: aciman, call-me-by-your-name, italy, love

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#16

“I’m not wise at all. I told you, I know nothing. I know books, and I know how to string words together—it doesn’t mean I know how to speak about the things that matter most to me.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, armie-hammer, call-me-by-your-name, timothy-chalamet

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#17

“Perhaps we were friends first and lovers second.
But then perhaps this is what lovers are.”
― André Aciman

tags: call-me-by-your-name, lovers

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#18

“Oliver was Oliver,' I said, as if that summed things up.

'Parce que c'était lui, parce que c'était moi,' my father added, quoting Montaigne's all-encompassing explanation for his friendship with Etienne de la Boétie.

I was thinking, instead, of Emily Brontë's words: because 'he's more myself than I am.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: allusion, andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, emily-bronte, love, oliver-and-elio, soul-mates, wuthering-heights

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#19

“What had been in my head for so long would now be out in the real world, no longer afloat in my foreverland of ambiguities.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, fantasies, real-world, reality

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#20

“We may never speak about this again. But I hope you’ll never hold it against me that we did. I will have been a terrible father if, one day, you’d want to speak to me and felt that the door was shut or not sufficiently open.”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, father, father-and-son, honesty, opening-up

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#21

“Each of us is like a moon that shows only a few facets to earth, but never its full sphere”
― André Aciman, Find Me

tags: call-me-by-your-name, find-me, love, moon

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#22

“Find Cupid everywhere in Rome because we'd clipped one of his wings and he was forced to fly in circles.”
― André Aciman

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, cupid, love, metaphor, rome

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#23

“But it might have started way later than I think without my noticing anything at all. You see someone, but you don't really see him, he's in the wings. Or you notice him, but nothing clicks, nothing "catches," and before you're even aware of a presence, or of something troubling you, the six weeks that were offered you have almost passed and he's either already gone or just about to leave, and you're basically scrambling to come to terms with something, which, unbeknownst to you, has been brewing for weeks under your very nose and bears all the symptoms of what you're forced to call I 'want'.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, coming-of-age, gay-relationships, relationships

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#24

“We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to feel nothing so as not to feel anything – what a waste! (…) How you live your life is your business. But remember, our hearts and bodies are given to us only once. Most of us can’t help but live as though we got two lives, one is the mockup, the other the finished version. But there’s only one and before you know it, your heart is worn out. Right now there’s sorrow. I don’t envy the pain. But I envy you the pain.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name

tags: call-me-by-your-name, elio

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#25

“I know nothing Oliver.”
― André Acimen

tags: call-me-by-your-name

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#26

“... better to find out once and for all than to spend the rest of the summer, or my life perhaps, arguing with my body...”
― André Aciman

tags: call-me-by-your-name, curiousity, explore

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#27

“if you are really like me, then before you leave tomorrow, or when you’re just ready to shut the door of the taxi and have already said goodbye to everyone else and there’s not a thing left to say in this life, then , just this once, turn to me, even in jest, or as an afterthought, which would have meant everything to me when we were together, and, as you did back then, look me in the face, hold my gaze, and call me by your name.”
― André Aciman

tags: andre-aciman, call-me-by-your-name, oliver-and-elio, romance, us

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#28

“I predict I will always be in negotiation with my body, what it wants, and what I want of it.”
― Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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#29

“I've loved you ever since I've known you, Jo, - couldn't help it, you've been so good to me, - I've tried to show it, but you wouldn't let me; now I'm going to make you hear, and give me an answer, for I can't go on so any longer." - Laurie”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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#30

“I am supposed to be touched. I can’t wait to find the person who will come into the kitchen just to smell my neck and get behind me and hug me and breathe me in and make me turn around and make me kiss his face and put my hands in his hair even with my soapy dishwater drips. I am a lovely woman. Who will come into my kitchen and be hungry for me?”
― Jenny Slate, Little Weirds

tags: love

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