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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
“I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“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
“You've got to see me, Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?”
― A Severed Head
― A Severed Head
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