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“I’ve been to places in this world that make hell seem like a tropical paradise.” ”
― Catch .22
― Catch .22
“Sergeant Pietro Oliva was a good Catholic. He liked to go into a church and cross himself, genuflect to the alter, and then settle down to a little prayer and contemplation, savouring the coolness, the heavy odours, the darkness, and the sensation of being soaked in the atmosphere of centuries’ worth of devotion that hung in the tenebrous and golden air of churches.”
― Birds Without Wings
― Birds Without Wings
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as it is.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression.
Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.”
― Girl, Interrupted
Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.”
― Girl, Interrupted
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