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“what does it matter if I've become mute in a world where there is no one to talk to?”
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“I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“My warm affections finding no return... were forced to run waste on inanimate objects.”
― Mathilda
― Mathilda
“I deplored silence. I deplored stillness. I hated almost everything. I was very unhappy and angry all the time. I tried to control myself, and that only made me more awkward, unhappier, and angrier. I was like Joan of Arc, or Hamlet, but born into the wrong life—the life of a nobody, a waif, invisible. There's no better way to say it: I was not myself back then. I was someone else. I was Eileen.”
― Eileen
― Eileen
“I had almost given up thinking by that time; nothing mattered to me. If at least I had solved my problems! Oh, I had not settled one of them, and how
many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
many there were! But I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
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