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“And the memories of all we have loved stay and come back to us in the evening of our life. They are not dead but sleep, and it is well to gather a treasure of them.”
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
― The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
“I experienced pleasure like a future pain.”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
“Wasn't that itself the miracle--that love really was an obscure and unfathomable connection between individuals, and not an economic contest where everyone was matched up according to how quantifiably lovable they were?”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“What was “Cinderella,” if not an allegory for the fundamental unhappiness of shoe shopping?”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it. Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate. How small a role you play in it.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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