“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
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“Last year nothing happened
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”
― The Setting Sun
The year before nothing happened
And the year before that nothing
happened.”
― The Setting Sun
“To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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