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“In my poems I could not shut the door to the street.”
― Pablo Neruda, Memoirs

“I once read somewhere that we mature with damage, not with age.”
― Chloe Walsh, Binding 13

“You take the old Goethe much too seriously, my young friend. You should not take old people who are already dead seriously. It does them an injustice. We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking. Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. For that reason I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
― Hermann Hesse, Steppenwolf

“I feel ugly, like I’m a bad person, and yet I’d like to be loved.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults