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“Art creates a certain familiarity with loneliness. And possibly with pain. Physical, mental, it doesn’t really matter. It’s all a catalyst. I don’t like to admit that because it’s depressing, but in truth pain is the stone that art sharpens itself on time after time.”
― The Museum of Modern Love
― The Museum of Modern Love
“Weren’t chains ashamed of their prisoners? But”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“It was a time when even the guilty displayed a rare innocence. In”
― The Girl Next Door
― The Girl Next Door
“As for sickness: are we not almost tempted to ask whether we could get along without it?’—and”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales
“Do you think the lobsters in the tank try to help the other lobsters? Is that why they pile up like that? Or is it just for company, because they know they’re all doomed? Better”
― Made You Up
― Made You Up
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