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“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
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― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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