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The Years

by Virginia Woolf

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Aug 26, 2018 06:27PM

Doug’s Quotes

“Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.”
― August Strindberg, Miss Julie

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“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”
― August Strindberg, The Ghost Sonata

tags: blindness, poison, sight, vision

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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“The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
― Wendy Wasserstein

tags: balance, happiness, humor, identity, intimacy, life, love, sadness, self-loathing

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