“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”
― Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
― Bitter Lemons of Cyprus
“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
― Invisible Man
― Invisible Man
“Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― The Souls of Black Folk
― The Souls of Black Folk
“Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
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