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чаю не пить как-то стыдно; здесь всё народ достаточный, так и стыдно. Ради чужих и пьешь его, Варенька, для вида, для тона; а по мне все равно, я не прихотлив.
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable.”
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
― The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“I don't think we did go blind, I think we are blind, Blind but seeing, Blind people who can see, but do not see.”
― Blindness
― Blindness
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