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“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of view.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I wrote it because we wanted to believe that our lives had some meaning. We wanted to know that we hadn't passed through the world unchanged, and that we hadn't left the world unchanged. We didn't want to come and go from this planet without leaving a mark.”
― The Other Side of Dawn
― The Other Side of Dawn
“Wir saßen im Wartesaal dritter Klasse, umtobt vom Lärm der Betrunkenen, und sprachen leise und verstanden dennoch jedes Wort, denn wir hörten mit den Herzen, nicht mit den Ohren.”
― Hotel Savoy
― Hotel Savoy
“All I got out of it was a terrible feeling that I was a disgusting human being. It was so against everything I stood for, everything I believed in. The next day I felt awful. I had a terrible headache anyway, and my stomach felt like it was still doing slow spins, but worse, far worse, was the way I felt such a slut.
I felt sick at myself.”
― Darkness, Be My Friend
I felt sick at myself.”
― Darkness, Be My Friend
“I began to think the damage to our country, to us even, went so deep now that it would never fully be repaired. I realised the worst damage wasn't the bombed buildings, the burnt-out cars, the shattered windows. It wasn't even the neglected farms and the holes in the fences and the crops gone to seed. It was the damage deep inside us. Words like spirit and soul started to mean more to me now.”
― Burning For Revenge
― Burning For Revenge
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