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“On returning home I deferred for a time my desire to embrace all mankind.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

“That is always a dangerous moment, he said, to make a big decision, when you are not sure of what you deserve. Evidently his friends shared his opinion, because all of them urged him, without hesitation, to take it. It is interesting how keen people are for you to do something they would never dream of doing themselves, how enthusiastically they drive you to your own destruction: even the kindest ones, the ones that are most loving, can rarely have your interests at heart, because usually they are advising you from within lives of greater security and greater confinement, where escape is not a reality but simply something they dream of sometimes. Perhaps, he said, we are all like animals in the zoo, and once we see that one of us has got out of the enclosure we shout at him to run like mad, even though it will only result in him becoming lost.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“There are moments when
the past ceases to be a form
of the present.
Rain and tears
look alike.”
― Etel Adnan, Time

“She’s a good woman, he thought. The kind of woman whose goodness is oppressive.”
― Han Kang, The Vegetarian