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"You look at love, and especially woman," she began, "as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully.
“For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?”
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“Suicides, in his experience, were perfectly capable of feigning an interest in a future they had no intention of inhabiting.”
― The Cuckoo's Calling
― The Cuckoo's Calling
“She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a frequently passing thought.”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“Sometimes, when there’s been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“But what was happiness but an extravagance, an impossible state to maintain, partly because it was so difficult to articulate?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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