“He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design."
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
"You say this as if you envied him."
"There are worse prisons than words.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
“To love makes one solitary.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.”
― An Experiment in Criticism
― An Experiment in Criticism
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