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“It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.”
― Island
― Island
“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.”
― Island
― Island
“Nobody loves the light like the blind man.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
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