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I don’t want to be demure or respectable. I was that way, asleep, for years. That way, you forget too many important things.
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
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“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”
― This Side of Paradise
“They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.”
― A Christmas Carol
― A Christmas Carol
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