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“He was another knife I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.”
― Circe
― Circe
“I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
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“Although I had once pinned all my hopes on putting myself through school, believing I could thereby make something of myself, I now realized the futility of this all too clearly. No amount of struggling for an education is going to help one get ahead in this world. And what does it mean to get ahead anyway? is there any more worthless lot than the so-called great people of this world? What is so admirable about being looked up to by others? I do not live for other. What I had to achieve was my own freedom, my own satisfaction. I had to be myself.”
― The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
― The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
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