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“Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me. The fibre of my mind coarsened and my eyes grew miserably keen. Life rose around my island like a sea, and presently I was swimming.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“She had been trapped into saying something she did not mean.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Every thing you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
― Kafka's Selected Stories: A Norton Critical Edition
“Aimlessness isn’t purposelessness. Not to me. Aimlessness isn’t meaningless. Quite the contrary. Aimlessness isn’t absence from life, it is full-bodied presence in it. To wander aimlessly is to move through the world without the conceit that we actually know what is coming next. That is, to move through the world with grace.”
― Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
― Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“That connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me. You can turn ugly because of worries—”
― The Lying Life of Adults
― The Lying Life of Adults
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