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“Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each other as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“The end was contained in the beginning.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”
― Tears and Saints
― Tears and Saints
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?”
― 1984
― 1984
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