“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
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“You know what the Chinese think is the saddest feeling in the world? It's for a child to finally grow the desire to take care of his parents, only to realize that they were long gone.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Feeling my own humiliation in my heart like the sharp prick of a needle.”
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
― The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
“I have so much to say to you that I am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side. Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.”
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
― Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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