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“Loneliness is my only goal, my greatest temptation, my possibility and, if you can say that I have 'organized' my life, then it has been organized to make loneliness feel good.”
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“Tell me a secret, a nice one.”
― All the Young Dudes
― All the Young Dudes
“I shall write it in my diary to-night.’
‘What?’
‘That a burnt child loves the fire.’
‘I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.’
‘You use them for everything, except flight.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
‘What?’
‘That a burnt child loves the fire.’
‘I am not even singed. My wings are untouched.’
‘You use them for everything, except flight.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“On the train we swapped seats, you wanted the window and I wanted to look at you.”
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“People always think we look for love at our lowest to distract us. I am convinced we do it because we want someone to look us in the eye, to look our ugly in the eye and still choose us. I didn’t want a distraction, I wanted you to see a mess and still find me worthy of love, to tell me that you could still love me anyway.”
― The Dead Man
― The Dead Man
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