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Later that night you were all I could think of and yet I’d never even spoken to you in my entire life.
“Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“this slow dissipation, the gradual abandonment of all expectations, a defeat that had killed everything without a battle.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so. I think that is what they call being consumed with remorse.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
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