“He had often thought of his loneliness, for example, as a condition which testified to his superiority. But people who were not superior were, nevertheless, extremely lonely—and unable to break out of their solitude precisely because they had no equipment with which to enter it. His own loneliness, magnified so many million times, made the night air colder. He remembered to what excesses, into what traps and nightmares, his loneliness had driven him; and he wondered where such a violent emptiness might drive an entire city.”
― Another Country
― Another Country
“Liberdade é pouco. O que eu desejo ainda não tem nome.”
― Near to the Wild Heart
― Near to the Wild Heart
“The ultimate expression of law is not order - it's prison.”
― Blood in My Eye
― Blood in My Eye
“The best ideas outrun me. That’s why I write.”
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
― Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays
“Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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