“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― The Beautiful and Damned
― The Beautiful and Damned
“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.”
― The Interpretation of Dreams
― The Interpretation of Dreams
“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
― The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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