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“I thought I loved him when he went away; I love him now in another degree: he is more my own. [ . . . ] Oh! a thousand weepers, praying in agony on waiting shores, listened for that voice, but it was not uttered--not uttered till; when the hush came, some could not feel it: till, when the sun returned, his light was night to some!”
― Villette
― Villette
“Introverts don’t see life as one big cocktail party. We’re content with just a few meaningful relationships.”
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
― The Secret Lives of Introverts: Inside Our Hidden World
“I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Kinder than is necessary. Because it's not enough to be kind. One should be kinder than needed.”
― Wonder
― Wonder
“It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of clarity, to be, in the end, so isolate and inadequate. Even when people try to say things, they say them poorly or obliquely, or they outright lie, sometimes because they're lying to you, but as often because they're lying to themselves.”
― The Woman Upstairs
― The Woman Upstairs
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