“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“He did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear. It takes energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking. He knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to beyond the horizon, as if impelled by a sinister centrifugal force.”
― The Sheltering Sky
― The Sheltering Sky
“Who am I? Let's put it this way: who has the best tunes?”
― The Satanic Verses
― The Satanic Verses
“I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon too soon.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
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