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“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.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The power of fear is in the sum of every small dream reduced to dust.”
― Eva Baltasar, Permafrost

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22