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“But why are they so fond of me if I don't deserve it? Oh, if only I were alone and no one loved me and I too had never loved anyone! Nothing of all this would have happened.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“I would say, some people are like constellations that only touch the earth for a season.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe