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“The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped form him - as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
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