“...Reminiscence is less an endowment than a disease, and expectation in its only comfortable form--that of absolute faith--is practically an impossibility; whilst in the form of hope and the secondary compounds, patience, impatience, resolve, curiosity, it is a constant fluctuation between pleasure and pain.”
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“I guess I'm thinking of myself here. I am tired. I am the one who asks, is death only the frozen image we have of the animal's body?...Maybe roadkills are more than they seem. Messages...”
― The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
― The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer
“My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“I want a dress the color of suffering”
― La Marquise de Sade
― La Marquise de Sade
“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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