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“There is no light in this world. Just darkness, and the faint flicker of hope.”
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“Everything in my life unravels, thread by thread, yet I smile as if I'm weaving a masterpiece. I wait patiently for the day when all of it—my triumphs, my failures, even my name—dissolves into nothing, as if none of it ever mattered at all.”
― Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
― Second Alibi: The Banality of Life
“This is the natural progression of the artist. At first you think it's only you. Born a star! Then you get out in the world and think, alright, there's a few of us. But just us. Meant to be! And then of course you realize it's not just you and your friends, but everyone. Hundreds of thousands of millions of people. Who want to be stars. Who think they have what it takes.”
― Tilt
― Tilt
“The wicked people were gone, but fear remained. Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief, and even doubt; but as long as he clings to life he cannot destroy fear: the fear, subtle, indestructible, and terrible, that pervades his being; that tinges his thoughts; that lurks in his heart; that watches on his lips the struggle of his last breath.”
― Almayer's Folly and Tales of Unrest
― Almayer's Folly and Tales of Unrest
“It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
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