There was something sad and solitary about the sketch and I wondered if that’s the way he saw the world or if that’s the way he saw my world.
“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
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“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
“The sea always filled her with longing, though for what she was never sure.”
― Inkheart
― Inkheart
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