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“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“[as a writer] you take up a life in your imagination, in which you can live all the other parts of yourself that you didn't become. And you can live in all the eras; the fact that you happened to be born in a certain place, in a certain dictate - the imagination doesn't accept these limitations.”
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“Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.”
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
― Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide
“Did you ever want to be a writer?” “No,” she said, and she would have told him. “I only wanted to be a reader.”
― Commonwealth
― Commonwealth
“Silence comes after everything. Everything is enclosed in silence. Everything is extinguished there, or falls asleep there.”
― Compass
― Compass
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