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“A Catholic gets it early. Incense, organ music, ashes on the forehead, wafer on the tongue. The best things shimmer with fear.”
― Libra
― Libra
“If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.”
― Stella Maris
― Stella Maris
“Not touching but joined in astonishment as two cuts lie parallel in the same flesh.”
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
― Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
“Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.”
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“Memory takes a lot of poetic licence. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart. The interior is therefore rather dim and poetic.”
― The Glass Menagerie
― The Glass Menagerie
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