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“And isn't the whole world yours? For how often you set it on fire with your love and saw it blaze and burn up and secretly replaced it with another world while everyone slept. You felt in such complete harmony with God, when every morning you asked him for a new earth, so that all the ones he had made could have their turn. You thought it would be shabby to save them and repair them; you used them up and held out your hands, again and again, for more world. For your love was equal to everything.”
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
― The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind

“Would you like me to put you out of your misery, before I put you out of your misery?”
― Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past
― Bentwhistle the Dragon in a Threat from the Past

“What do you need me for? Salander's greatest fear, which was so huge and so black that it was of phobic proportions, was that people would laugh at her feelings. And all of a sudden all her carefully constructed self-confidence seemed to crumble.”
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
― The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

“As I read, however, I applied much personally to my own feelings and condition. I found myself similar, yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read, and to whose conversation I was a listener. I sympathized with, and partly understood them, but I was unformed in mind, I was dependent on none, and related to none . . . and there was none to lament my annihilation . . . what did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination? These questions continually recurred, but I was unable to solve them.”
― Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
― Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
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