“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate--call it what you will--happened to be me.”
― My Cousin Rachel
― My Cousin Rachel
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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