“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
― The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
“In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly”
― The Virgin Suicides
― The Virgin Suicides
“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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