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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”
― Sylvia Plath

“Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is.”
― William S. Burroughs, Last Words: The Final Journals

“How could you let yourself be sidetracked while I was waiting for your breath on my back?”
― Anna Gavalda, I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

“Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.”
― Luke Davies, Candy

“She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe