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“Where you tend a rose my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
― The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Juvenile Fiction, Classics, Family
“If Socrates leaves his house today he will find the sage seated on his doorstep. If Judas go forth tonight it is to Judas his steps will tend.’ Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-law. But always meeting ourselves.”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once…”
― Ulysses
― Ulysses
“If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.”
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“I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahead of me as the seniors at Rye when I was in the sixth grade; people who knew everything instinctively, who made their lives work out the way they wanted without even trying, who never had to make the best of a bad job because it never occured to them to do anything less then perfectly the first time. Sort of heroic super-people, all of them beautiful and witty and calm and kind, and I always imagined that when I did find them I'd suddenly know that I Belonged among them, that I was one of them, that I'd been meant to be one of them all along, and everything in the meantime had been a mistake; and they'd know it too. I'd be like the ugly duckling among the swans.”
― Revolutionary Road
― Revolutionary Road
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