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“Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

“First sensed the girl was a wild creature one night...Broke an icicle and put it in her mouth. I shut my eyes. She wanted to eat the world.”
― Lauren Groff, The Monsters of Templeton

“You’re voluptuous and too smart and too kind and too mean, and you give everyone just what they want and then you get sad and bland.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.

“I want to insist that our being alive is beautiful enough to be worthy of replication.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous