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“I love life - that’s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life.”
― The Fall
― The Fall
“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“- Why me?
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
- That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?
- Yes.
- Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. My love's not impersonal yet not wholly subjective either. I would like to be everyone, a cripple, a dying man, a whore, and then come back to write about my thoughts, my emotions, as that person. But I am not omniscient. I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have. And you cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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