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it’s not the large things that send a man to a madhouse . . . death he’s ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood . . . no, it’s the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse . . . not the death of his
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“Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not.”
― The Secret History
― The Secret History
“It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“I learned that while the fallen woman may keep her unloved door plain and her drapes drawn, her circle small and her fire low—if she's wise, I suppose she will—the path to her back stoop will be well-traveled. I guarantee it.”
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“To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn't sleep.”
― The Bell Jar
― The Bell Jar
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