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“If there’s life on other planets, then the earth is the Universe’s insane asylum.”
―
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“We must never forget that human motives are generally far more complicated than we are apt to suppose, and that we can very rarely accurately describe the motives of another.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness”
― Poems, 1923-1954
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
― Lolly Willowes
― Lolly Willowes
“That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.”
― Country Girl
― Country Girl
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