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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
― Albert Camus

“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
― Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.”
― Albert Camus

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live. ”
― Albert Camus

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims Nor Executioners

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”
― Albert Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays

“And he knew, also, what the old man was thinking as his tears flowed, and he, Rieux, thought it too: that a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.”
― Albert Camus

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“To be a woman is a horror I can little comprehend.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“I do not need to contain my appetites.

What is a monster but a creature of agency?”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“All we can hope for in life is to know one's own desires in order to be able to act on them. To want is to surrender to uncertainty. To step into the unknown. To expose ourselves to all possible outcomes and trust we will not be destroyed by disappointment.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“I wonder for what you hunger and whether you allow yourself to feel it.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone