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“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“We go out to be gay. We crave this when once again growing bored with the straight world”
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
― Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.”
― The History Boys
― The History Boys
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