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“There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? ...Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
“To understand all is to forgive all.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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