“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Mother Night
― Mother Night
“People don’t change. Things do.”
― L'écume des jours
― L'écume des jours
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism is merely a mask for depression's actual essence, which is an overwhelming estrangement from humanity. The more persuaded you are of your unique access to the rottenness, the more afraid you become of engaging with the world; and the less you engage with the world, the more perfidiously happy-faced the rest of humanity seems for continuing to engage with it.”
― How to Be Alone
― How to Be Alone
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