“To love makes one solitary, she thought.”
― Mrs Dalloway
― Mrs Dalloway
“Montaigne was right in believing that the mere presence of his books around him had an effect on his mind and character, that their patient availability made certain thoughts and modes of thinking possible or more likely.”
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“Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life?”
-The Rainbow”
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-The Rainbow”
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Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
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