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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.”
― The Trial
― The Trial
“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“Marriage is memory, marriage is time. Marriage is not only time: it is also, parodoxically, the denial of time.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
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