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“Friendship is no ideal state of mind; it is a law, and a strict one, on which the entire legal systems of great cultures were built. It reaches beyond personal desires and self-regard in men's hearts, its grip is greater than that of sexual desire, and it is proof against disappointment because it asks for nothing.”
― Embers
― Embers
“I don’t need your praise
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.”
― The Wild Iris
to survive. I was here first,
before you were here, before
you ever planted a garden.
And I’ll be here when only the sun and moon
are left, and the sea, and the wide field.
I will constitute the field.”
― The Wild Iris
“O, she said, a woman in love can't afford to be proud. He must be made to see, he must be made to come back. And I must do it myself, no matter how silly it looks.”
― The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
― The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
“Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired”
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
― A Morbid Taste for Bones
“There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.”
― Embers
― Embers
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