“We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“Morality has its own civil wars, with its own victims in its own time and place.”
― The Secret Scripture
― The Secret Scripture
“Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.”
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
― In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
“Ze zijn misschien geen thuis, maar het zijn wel plaatsen die me hebben getekend, mijn voorkeuren hebben gevormd, sympathieën hebben geschapen. Samen nemen ze de ruimte in mijn hart in waar mijn thuis zou hebben gezeten als ik dat had gehad.”
― Dying: A Memoir
― Dying: A Memoir
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