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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.
“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
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“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
“For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“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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