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“Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Life is made of so many partings welded together”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“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;
“...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
“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― The Canterville Ghost
― The Canterville Ghost
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