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The Apple in the Dark (Penguin Modern Classics)

by Clarice Lispector

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“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights

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“My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think… and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment - it's frightful - if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing. I am the one who pulls myself from the nothingness to which I aspire.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Sally Rooney , Normal People

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“To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
― Thomas Hardy, Return of the Native

tags: disgruntlement, dissatisfaction, drama-queen, self-delusion, unhappiness

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