“What does the brain matter compared with the heart?”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
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“One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.”
― Psychotherapy East and West
― Psychotherapy East and West
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.”
― The Waves
― The Waves
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