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“Yes I would like he thinks to live in such a way that I could vanish into thin air at any time without affecting anyone and in fact I feel that for me this would constitute the perfect and perhaps the only acceptable life. At the same time I want desperately to be loved.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“They let the ground keep that ancestral treasure,
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.”
― Beowulf
gold under gravel, gone to earth,
as useless to men now as it ever was.”
― Beowulf
“Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved, and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Sometimes you need people to be perfect and they can’t be and you hate them forever for not being even though it isn’t their fault and it’s not yours either. You just needed something they didn’t have in them to give you.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“But is it not a duty to the survivors, that we should refrain from augmenting their unhappiness by an appearance of immoderate grief?”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
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