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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
“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
“I wished to be loved by another, but I desire no man’s pity.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“I don't know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely”
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“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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