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“This moment will just be another story someday.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. “I’m afraid of committing myself,” she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pan, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life.”
― Brida
― Brida
“Because you believed I was capable of behaving decently, I did.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
“You're mistaken, Father. You were in paradise, but you didn't recognize it. It's the same with most people in this world; they seek suffering in the most joyous of places because they think they are unworthy of happiness.”
― The Devil and Miss Prym
― The Devil and Miss Prym
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