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“Imagining something is better than remembering something.”
― The World According to Garp
― The World According to Garp
“The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”
― The End of the Affair
― The End of the Affair
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
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