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“I exist.’ In thousands of agonies — I exist. I’m tormented on the rack — but I exist! Though I sit alone in a pillar — I exist! I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. And there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“You will think me cruel, very selfish, but love is always selfish; the more ardent the more selfish. How jealous I am you cannot know. You must come with me, loving me, to death;”
― Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla: The Original Vampire Classic that inspired Dracula |Illustrated|

“The one who wears the chains is a thousand times greater than the one who wields them,”
― Samantha Shannon, The Priory of the Orange Tree