Adbhuta

“It is so tiring to hate someone you love.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Woman Destroyed

“I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex