“It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.”
― Twelve Angry Men
― Twelve Angry Men
“...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“If they tell you that she died of sleeping pills you must know that she died of a wasting grief, of a slow bleeding at the soul.”
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“I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.”
― The Mikado
― The Mikado
“A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day in corruption, lies, chatter. This he had preserved. Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of reaching the centre which, mystically, evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded, one was alone. There was an embrace in death.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
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