“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“Just read one book a month and at the end of they year you would be totally different but an impressive personality.”
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“Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot even see”
― Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
― Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
“He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.”
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
― Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
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