“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
― Women
― Women
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
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“It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.”
― The Lover's Dictionary
― The Lover's Dictionary
“In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.”
― The New York Trilogy
― The New York Trilogy
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
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