“I’m filled with a desire for clarity and meaning within a world and condition that offers neither.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“There were times when the pressure to achieve happiness felt almost oppressive, as if happiness were something that everyone should and could attain, that any sort of compromise in its pursuit was somehow your fault.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).
I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.
But it's for you, Willem.”
― A Little Life
I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.
But it's for you, Willem.”
― A Little Life
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