“Are we not all prisoners? She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell, and she had felt that was true of life—one scratched on the wall.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I poured my soul into the dust by loving a man who was soon to die, as if he would live forever.”
― The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Books I-X
― The Confessions of Saint Augustine: Books I-X
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the center which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
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