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“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”
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“But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.”
― Essays After Eighty
― Essays After Eighty
“If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.”
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“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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