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“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out

“The mind of the subject will desperately struggle to create memories where none exist...”
― R. Lutece

“I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then there is the question on which so much depends, of how we react to the damage: whether we admit it or repress it,and how this affects our dealings with others.Some admit the damage, and try to mitigate it;some spend their lives trying to help others who are damaged; and there are those whose main concern is to avoid further damage to themselves, at whatever cost. And those are the ones who are ruthless, and the ones to be careful of.”
― Julian Barnes , The Sense of an Ending

“It was a hideous discovery for the stranger to make—that a man at the end of his days was capable of inflicting pain as the rawest, loudest youth. With so little time left, the stranger added one more item to his long, long list of regrets.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction