1984
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'Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?
“May your sky be clear, may your sweet smile be bright and serene, may you be blessed for that moment of bliss that you gave to another lonely, grateful heart! My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“But really, both of them knew why they kept attending these parties: because they had become one of the few opportunities the four of them had to be together, and at times they seemed to be their only opportunity to create memories the four of them could share, keeping their friendship alive by dropping bundles of kindling onto a barely smoldering black smudge of fire. It was their way of pretending everything was the same.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It’s a curious thing how, no matter what’s wrong with you, a man’ll tell you to have your teeth examined and a woman’ll tell you to get married.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“For three years,’ says Kirilov, ‘I sought the attribute of my divinity and I have found it. The attribute of my divinity is independence.’ Now can be seen the meaning of Kirilov’s premiss: ‘If God does not exist, I am god.’ To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
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