“oh, that was a terrible time for me, I can tell you. I kept the blinds drawn down over both my windows. When I peeped out, I saw the sun shining as if nothing had happened. I could not understand it. I saw people going along the street, laughing and talking about indifferent things. I could not understand it. It seemed to me that the whole of existence must be at a standstill -- as if under an eclipse.”
― The Wild Duck/John Gabriel Borkman
― The Wild Duck/John Gabriel Borkman
“If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think yours is the only path.”
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
― By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
“Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all.”
― Veronika Decides to Die
― Veronika Decides to Die
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