“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire -- meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead. Fear, recrimination, innocence, sympathizing, guilt, waste, failure, grief, were things, emotions, that no one really felt any more. Reflection is useless, the world is senseless. Evil is its only permanence. God is not alive. Love cannot be trusted. Surface, surface, surface was all that anyone found meaning in...this was civilization as I saw it, colossal and jagged...”
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“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
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“True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?”
― The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
― The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
“Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.”
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“It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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