“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
― The Cost of Living
― The Cost of Living
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
― A Woman of No Importance
― A Woman of No Importance
“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.”
― A Home at the End of the World
― A Home at the End of the World
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