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"I have to put this book down—not because it is bad, but because it is too raw, too anxiety-inducing. And I cannot really sit comfortably with the question “Will I ever be alright?”" — Oct 03, 2025 10:12AM
"I have to put this book down—not because it is bad, but because it is too raw, too anxiety-inducing. And I cannot really sit comfortably with the question “Will I ever be alright?”" — Oct 03, 2025 10:12AM
I think myself cured of all spite, but when I touch pen to paper, the hurt of a boy bleeds out with the sea-spawned ink, until I suspect each carefully formed black letter scabs over some ancient scarlet wound.
“Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again. That is why every man's story is important, eternal, sacred; that is why every man, as long as he lives and fulfills the will of nature, is wondrous, and worthy of consideration. In each individual the spirit has become flesh, in each man the creation suffers, within each one a redeemer is nailed to the cross.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“To love makes one solitary.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“It’s better to think a hundred times and then speak once than to circulate all this blather unthinkingly,”
― Din cer au căzut trei mere
― Din cer au căzut trei mere
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