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""the enjoyment was just from the intense consciousness of one's own degradation; it was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into"" — Sep 30, 2026 05:12AM
""the enjoyment was just from the intense consciousness of one's own degradation; it was from feeling oneself that one had reached the last barrier; that there was no escape for you; that you never could become a different man; that even if time and faith were still left you to change into something different you would most likely not wish to change; because perhaps in reality there was nothing for you to change into"" — Sep 30, 2026 05:12AM
“And so it is that when we are unhappy we more strongly feel the unhappiness of others; feeling is not shattered but becomes concentrated...”
― Белые ночи
― Белые ночи
“Why is it that I find it so difficult to accept the present moment, whole as an apple, without cutting and hacking at it to find a purpose, or setting it up on a shelf with other apples to measure its worth or trying to pickle it in brine to preserve it, and crying to find it turns all brown and is no longer simply the lovely apple I was given in the morning?”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I’ve seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy. Tomorrow, he was longing for tomorrow, whereas everything in him ought to reject it”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Don't think I'm saying that money makes happiness. I only mean that for a certain class of beings happiness is possible, provided they have time, and that having money is a way of being free of money.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
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