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“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
“Mine is not an obedient writing. I think that literature as any art has to be irreverent.”
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
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“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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