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mankind, doomed to its own ruin through desire, would do better to stick to its own needs.
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.”
― Le Roman de l'adolescent myope
― Le Roman de l'adolescent myope
“Toţi suntem trişti, spunea el. Nu se vede întotdeauna, dar toţi oamenii sunt trişti.”
― Noaptea de Sânziene
― Noaptea de Sânziene
“First the pain, then the waiting, then the rising. All of our suffering comes when we try to get to our resurrection without allowing ourselves to be crucified first.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“History isn’t the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It’s more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending
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