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Every day my mother experienced this deep despondency about living. Sometimes it lasted, sometimes it would vanish with the dark. I had the luck to have a mother desperate with a despair so unalloyed that sometimes even life’s happiness, at
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“I was miserable. I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child too. I hadn't known that before. I thought I was just short.”
― Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
― Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady
“God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom she adores. What delight, to be in turns the object and the victor of her remorse! Far be it from me to destroy the prejudices which sway her mind! They will add to my happiness and my triumph. Let her believe in virtue, and sacrifice it to me; let the idea of falling terrify her, without preventing her fall; and may she, shaken by a thousand terrors, forget them, vanquish them only in my arms.”
― Les Liaisons dangereuses
― Les Liaisons dangereuses
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