“We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world. We are refugees. We are fleeing from ourselves. From our lives. We were eighteen years old, and we had just begun to love the world and to love being in it; but we had to shoot at it. The first shell to land went straight for our hearts. We've been cut off from real action, from getting on, from progress. We don't believe in those things any more; we believe in the war.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”
― Identity
“Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…”
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
― Tess of the D’Urbervilles
“What do you do when you're no longer the hero of your own story?”
― By Nightfall
― By Nightfall
“A mirror mirroring a mirror”
― I Am a Strange Loop
― I Am a Strange Loop
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