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“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
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