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“...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok - I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
“Evil is a point of view...God kills, and so shall we; indiscriminately...for no creatures under God are as we are, none so like Him as ourselves.
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.”
― Interview with the Vampire
God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are none so like him as ourselves.”
― Interview with the Vampire
“How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.”
― Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley;
― Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley;
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