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Kalamos

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Kalamos’s Quotes

“We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.”
― Jeff VanderMeer, Borne

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“Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

tags: grantaire, les-mis, les-miserables

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“Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling, too.”
― Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt

tags: carol, forbidden-love, impossible-love, in-love, lesbian, love, patricia-highsmith, starcrossed-lovers, the-price-of-salt, unrequited-love

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“I sure did live in this world.'
'Really? What have you got to show for it?'
'Show? To who? I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me.'
'Lonely, ain't it?'
'Yes. But my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you.”
― Toni Morrison, Sula

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