“Like the darkness of closed eyes on a summers afternoon”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.”
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“I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with a toothache, thinking about the toothache an about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.”
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