Lorelei
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“When I read obituaries I always note the age of the deceased. Automatically I relate this figure to my own age. Four years to go, I think. Nine more years. Two years and I'm dead. The power of numbers is never more evident than when we use them to speculate on the time of our dying.”
― White Noise
― White Noise
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
― This Is How You Lose Her
― This Is How You Lose Her
“A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed to me but now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I have known boredom, regret, and occasionally remorse, but never sorrow. Today it envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, and sets me apart from everybody else.”
― Bonjour tristesse
― Bonjour tristesse
“It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.”
― Hyperion
― Hyperion
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