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There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.
“Reva often spoke about 'settling down.' That sounded like death to me.
'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
'I'd rather be alone than anybody's live-in prostitute,' I said to Reva.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“Ever think he’s too good to be true? Sam had asked the day I showed her the cake topper. I wished she’d never asked that question.”
― The Wife Between Us
― The Wife Between Us
“She always wept because she slept alone, Now she sleeps among the dead.”
― Call Me By Your Name
― Call Me By Your Name
“One of the most terrible, most mysterious things about a life is that a warning can be heeded only in retrospect: too late.”
― If Beale Street Could Talk
― If Beale Street Could Talk
“Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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