“Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“The power of grief to derange the mind has in fact been exhaustively noted.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“The political moral is certainly depressing; these people could be made to believe in anybody or anything.”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
“We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imagination with the greatest intensity becomes history.”
― Black Swans
― Black Swans
“I lived in my own world, dreaming about the dead and their vanished centuries.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
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