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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“It was proof that I had not always been completely alone in this world. But I think I was also holding on to the loss, to the emptiness of the house itself, as though to affirm that it was better to be alone than to be stuck with people who were supposed to love you, yet couldn’t.”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“As long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled stranger on the dark earth.”
― Selected Poetry
― Selected Poetry
“Rejection, I have found, can be the only antidote to delusion”
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
― My Year of Rest and Relaxation
“I belong to quick, futile moments of intense feeling. Yes, I belong to moments. Not to people.”
― A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
― A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909
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