Olga Bear
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“Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art”
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
― The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Four: 1931-1935
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
“Next to music, beer was best.”
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
― The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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