“Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Often before falling asleep - in that small struggle not to lose consciousness and enter the greater world - often, before having the courage to go toward the greatness of sleep, I pretend that someone is holding my hand and I go, go toward the enormous absence of form that is sleep. And when even then I can't find the courage, then I dream.”
― The Passion According to G.H.
― The Passion According to G.H.
“I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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