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“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
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“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.”
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“Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.”
― Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
― Q's Legacy: A Delightful Account of a Lifelong Love Affair with Books
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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