“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd...”
― Suite Francaise
― Suite Francaise
“You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.”
― Portnoy’s Complaint
― Portnoy’s Complaint
“The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open. ”
― The Dying Animal
― The Dying Animal
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”
― De Profundis
― De Profundis
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”
― Freedom
― Freedom
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