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“I would be astonished to find myself in a state of darkness, pleasant and restful enough for the eyes, and even more, perhaps, for my mind, to which it appeared incomprehensible, without a cause, a matter dark indeed.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Nobody's death is impending."
..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
― The Last Guardian
..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.”
― The Last Guardian
“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
― Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Usually, to be sure, man considers only the stubble field of transitoriness and overlooks the full granaries of the past, wherein he had salvaged once and for all his deeds, his joys and also his sufferings. Nothing can be undone, and nothing can be done away with. I should say having been is the surest kind of being.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Here was an ugly little girl asking for beauty....A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. His outrage grew and felt like power. For the first time he honestly wished he could work miracles.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
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