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“Listen, who hasn't waited for something to happen? I know folks died waiting. I know hurt is a wandering song. I was lost in my fear.”
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“Have you ever thought about the enormous courage of trees? I have, and it seems to me amazing, The Lord dumps them down and they just gotta stick it, no matter what happens.”
― The Well of Loneliness
― The Well of Loneliness
“I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?”
― Inseparable
― Inseparable
“—What should I do? I can't bear living. Life is so short and I can't bear living.
—But there's so much, Lóri, that you still don't know. And there's a place where despair is a light and a love.
— And afterward?
— Afterward is Nature.
— You're calling death Nature.
—No, Lóri, I'm calling us Nature.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
—But there's so much, Lóri, that you still don't know. And there's a place where despair is a light and a love.
— And afterward?
— Afterward is Nature.
— You're calling death Nature.
—No, Lóri, I'm calling us Nature.”
― An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures
“So identical were their pitiful whimpers, the way their screams gave way to desperate entreaties then returned to screams, that the notion came to me: this was what each of us would go through on our way to death, that these terrible noises were as universal as the crying of newborn babies.”
― When We Were Orphans
― When We Were Orphans
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