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“It’s amazing how clothing affects how people see—or don’t see—you.”
― Lola and the Boy Next Door
― Lola and the Boy Next Door
“You sound almost bitter about it.”
“I am. Life is a cheat. A tease. If you're born into a happy or comfortable existence, then you grow attached to it and some day it's taken from you for one reason or another. And if you're born into suffering, then things are that much worse. No matter how your life begins or unfolds, as Jim Morrison so poetically put it, 'No one here gets out alive.”
― The Syrian Virgin
“I am. Life is a cheat. A tease. If you're born into a happy or comfortable existence, then you grow attached to it and some day it's taken from you for one reason or another. And if you're born into suffering, then things are that much worse. No matter how your life begins or unfolds, as Jim Morrison so poetically put it, 'No one here gets out alive.”
― The Syrian Virgin
“The most expensive part of building is the mistakes.”
― The Pillars of the Earth
― The Pillars of the Earth
“Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
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