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“I have seen very little of life, and I really sometimes don't know how to say things”
― White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double
― White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double
“So it's over, and they're just nothing?”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“Because it begins to seem to me at such times that I am incapable of beginning a life in real life, because it has seemed to me that I have lost all touch, all instinct for the actual, the real”
― White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double
― White Nights, Poor Folk & The Double
“She felt foolish for not realizing what he had been thinking about.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“On the phone Joanna frequently describes her office, the various characters who work there, the dramas that erupt between them, and it's as if she's a citizen of a country Marianne has never visited, the country of paid employment.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
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