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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“I don’t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
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