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“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
― The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
“You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
“But to know that one might have things doesn't alter the fact that one hasn't got them,”
― Night and Day
― Night and Day
“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . . but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted.”
― Nausea
― Nausea
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