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“Your idea of love is rather primitive. It's not a series of sensations, independent of each other...It's something different... a sense of loss...”
― Bonjour tristesse
― Bonjour tristesse
“She no longer belonged to herself. No matter where she sought refuge, people had unashamedly formed an image of her over which she had no control.”
― The Faces
― The Faces
“Peace meant not existing in other people’s consciousness.”
― The Faces
― The Faces
“Normal people say, I can’t imagine feeling so bad I’d genuinely want to die. I do not try and explain that it isn’t that you want to die. It is that you know you are not supposed to be alive, feeling a tiredness that powders your bones, a tiredness with so much fear. The unnatural fact of living is something you must eventually fix.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
“If I were quiet, I might be able to concentrate on getting the fragments of my life together. But there are noises inside my head from all those departures. Although the bumps and sores are fading, my skin burns and stings. Most of the time I rest on my unmade bed. Why must the phone ring? I am startled, nearly jump to the ceiling whenever it does. I don't want to speak to anyone for a long time. Yet I feel so alone.”
― The Princess of 72nd Street
― The Princess of 72nd Street
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