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This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people.
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
― The Haunting of Hill House
― The Haunting of Hill House
“I took a step toward her. 'It is my right to reside in my own mind. It is my right,' I said.”
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
― Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
“This world was designed to generate winners and losers, and it showed a lack of character to wish yourselves a winner without accepting what it does to those who lose.”
― Thirteen Storeys
― Thirteen Storeys
“history is what it is. it knows what it did. bad dog. bad blood. bad day to be a boy”
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
― Don't Call Us Dead: Poems
“I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so I'm on my way home.”
― Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture
― Bob Dylan - No Direction Home: A Martin Scorsese Picture
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