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aching. It was strange, Andrew thought, how when something moved in the dark, everyone’s first instinct was to go inside and hide under the covers. As if monsters couldn’t open doors and crawl into bed with you.
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― The Vampire Lestat
― The Vampire Lestat
“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.”
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
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“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
― Franz Kafka's The Castle
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