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“Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
“I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever.”
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“Look down at me and you see a fool,
Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
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Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself.”
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“Why do I fall in love with every woman I see that shows me the least bit of attention?”
― Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
― Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script
“The ocean," I said, "look at it out there, battering, crawling up and down. And underneath all that, the fish, the poor fish fighting each other, eating each other. We're like those fish, only we're up here. One bad move and you're finished. It's nice to be a champion. It's nice to know your moves.”
― Post Office
― Post Office
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