“We were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“Some day, with the last exhaustion, peace will come. It won't be the end of all things to come.”
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“I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books. I have mixed with them--one or two of them particularly-- almost as one of their own sex. I mean I have not felt about them as most women are taught to feel--to be on their guard against attacks on their virtue; for no average man-- no man short of a sensual savage--will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look 'Come on' he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.”
― Jude the Obscure
― Jude the Obscure
“What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?”
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“Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
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