Life—how terrible it was, and how unsuspected. One went on and on, never dreaming of the sudden dreadful day when the coverings were going to be dropped and one would see it was death after all, that it had been death all the time, death
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“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”
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“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”
― A Confederacy of Dunces
― A Confederacy of Dunces
“Fame is longing. Not yours, but the audience’s. A star is nothing more, nothing less, than the public face of private desire.”
― The Air You Breathe
― The Air You Breathe
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”
― Herzog
― Herzog
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