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    Louis-Ferdinand Céline
    “That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.”
    ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
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    Iain Reid
    “I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It dominates. There’s not much I can do about it. Trust me. It doesn’t go away. It’s there whether I like it or not. It’s there when I eat. When I go to bed. It’s there when I sleep. It’s there when I wake up. It’s always there. Always.”
    ― Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
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    Emily Brontë
    “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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    Emily Brontë
    “I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: heart, heartbroken
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    Emily Brontë
    “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
    ― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
    tags: catherine, haunting, heathcliff, love, malediction, restlessness
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    Emily Brontë
    “Terror made me cruel . . .”
    ― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
    tags: ghosts, haunting, supernatural
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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    Shirley Jackson
    “No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
    tags: horror, house
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    J.D. Salinger
    “I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
    tags: truth
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: life, reality, self-discovery, solitude
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Daniel Keyes
    “Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.”
    ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon
    tags: book, books, music
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    Herman Melville
    “As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
    ― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
    tags: exploration
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Albert Camus
    “Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee? But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
    ― Albert Camus, A Happy Death
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
    ― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost
    tags: death
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    Sylvia Plath
    “because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: depression
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    Sylvia Plath
    “To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: sylvia-plath, ted-hughes, the-bell-jar
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: dreams, fantasy, life, living, pain, suffering
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: achievements, dreaming, dreamless, dreams, forgetting, sleep, tired
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: dna, noise, self, soul
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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    Fernando Pessoa
    “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
    ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
    tags: life, pain, ships
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
    tags: flesh, friends, mirrors, naked, society
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
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    Kate Chopin
    “The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.”
    ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
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    Shirley Jackson
    “Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    tags: afraid, fear, merricat, strangers
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    Shirley Jackson
    “I'm going to put death in all their food and watch them die.”
    ― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
    tags: death, hate, poison
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