“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
“There is nothing wrong with the love of Beauty. But Beauty - unless she is wed to something more meaningful - is always superficial.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“I am only true when I’m alone.”
― The Hour of the Star
― The Hour of the Star
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