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“Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you're nobody-but-yourself.”
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“I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.”
― The Complete Persepolis
― The Complete Persepolis
“People who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man should only be unhappy about a person who is worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the comma bacillus.”
― Swann’s Way
― Swann’s Way
“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached them, very lightly, to the belt. So on a summer’s day waves collect, overbalance, and fall; collect and fall; and the whole world seems to be saying “that is all” more and more ponderously, until even the heart in the body which lies in the sun on the beach says too, That is all. Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall. And the body alone listens to the passing bee; the wave breaking; the dog barking, far away barking and barking.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“And that heart which was a wild garden was given to him who only loved trim lawns. And the imbecile carried the princess into slavery.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
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