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“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”
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“I am not strange but I feel queer. I am like that sometimes. I feel like crying all the time. It is very silly but it will pass.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“My lungs are thick with the smoke of your absence.”
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
― Where Water Comes Together with Other Water: Poems
“The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”
― Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
― Midnight in Paris: The Shooting Script
“If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.”
― Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
― Call If You Need Me: The Uncollected Fiction and Other Prose
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