“My poor Jude. My poor sweetheart. And with that he starts to cry. For nobody has called him sweetheart.”
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“When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“When did we become such terrible people?”
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― If We Were Villains
“Maybe we’ve always been terrible.”
― If We Were Villains
“But in Shakespeare's world, passion is irresistible, not embarrassing.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Sometimes, I used to sit under the sky, on a clear night, and gaze at the stars, saying, in my croaky voice: “Lord, if you’re up there somewhere, and you aren’t too busy, come and say a few words to me, because I’m very lonely and it would make me so happy.” Nothing happened. So I reckon that humanity— which I wonder whether I belong to —really had a very vivid imagination.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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