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“I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost.”
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
― Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“It was some time ago that you talked about it, and you never once noticed that every time you mentioned her name it went through me like a knife, like an electric shock, and that I struck back, not always according to the rules, but I really wanted it to hurt. Why did you think I did that? Because I felt shamed by her? Or guilty? Why did every mention of her name drive me almost mad?”
― The Fawn
― The Fawn
“Nobody when they're rejected believes it's really for extraneous reasons. And it almost never is for extraneous reasons, because mutual attraction — which even makes sense from an evolutionary perspective — is simply the strangest reason to do anything, overriding all the contrary principles and making them fall away into nothing.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement?
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
It is Clarissa, he said.
For there she was.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Naturally I feel no shame in writing these things because of the time which separates the moment when they are written--when only I can see them--from the moment when they will be read by other people, a moment which I feel will never come. By then I could have had an accident or died; a war or a revolution could have broken out. This delay makes it possible for me to write today, in the same way I used to lie in the scorching sun for a whole day at sixteen, or make love wihout contraceptives at twenty: without thinking about the consequences”
― Simple Passion
― Simple Passion
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