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“Love...no such thing.
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.
Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.”
― Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes
― Une saison en enfer suivi de Illuminations et autres textes
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