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“Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).
I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.
But it's for you, Willem.”
― A Little Life
I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.
But it's for you, Willem.”
― A Little Life
“If you do something that is forbidden, it is the action that is the target. If you do something that isn't forbidden, and they intervene, then it's not the activity that's attracting the attention, it is you yourself.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Talking is existing.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I wasn't alone, but I was terribly lonely. Because I knew that I would never be happier than I was then.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“People are complicated puzzles, always trying to piece together a complete picture, but sometimes we get it wrong and sometimes we’re left unfinished. Sometimes that’s for the best. Some pieces can’t be forced into a puzzle, or at least they shouldn’t be, because they won’t make sense.”
― History Is All You Left Me
― History Is All You Left Me
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