Old age and illness are destroyers of individuality. Just as babies look alike, so do people at the end of their lives. Those who stay in their birthplace may escape this fate somewhat if they still have people around them who know what
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“And thus fell the verdict, light as spring rain, regarding Låke's future, it fell over the dining table one night in February.”
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“People are lonely, is my point here. Many people can’t say to those they know well what it is they feel they might want to say.”
― Oh William!
― Oh William!
“All this nonsense about love being a drug, making you feel high, that's not real. It should hold you like the earth.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
“He had a conventional notion of culture. He thought that going to the theater or ballet and keeping up-to-date with the movie listings made you cultured. I, on the other hand, learned to believe in the depth of experience: returning ten times to the art gallery near my house to look at that Kandinsky again because I identified with its shapes, on a deep level, in my soul. I didn’t care at all whether it was fashionable and I didn’t attend the concerts my father timidly suggested. For me music worked better in the solitude of my room than it did live.”
― Ten Women
― Ten Women
“They were just like the relations from whom I had fled as a girl. I couldn't bear them and yet they held me tight, I had them all inside me.”
― The Lost Daughter
― The Lost Daughter
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