“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
“But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”
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“Then I understood I would never marry him. It's funny how one thing can make you realize something like that. One can be ready to give up the children one always wanted, one can be ready to withstand remarks about one's past, or one's clothes, but then—a tiny remark and the soul deflates and says: Oh.”
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
― My Name Is Lucy Barton
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