“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.”
― Dime-Store Alchemy
― Dime-Store Alchemy
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey
“Mothers are all slightly insane.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
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