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“What did I want? What was I looking for? What was I doing there, hour after hour? Contradictory things. I wanted to know what was going on. I wanted to be stimulated. I wanted to be in contact and I wanted to retain my privacy, my private space.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
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— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
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“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”
― Letters to Felice
― Letters to Felice

“Sometimes, all you need is permission to feel. Sometimes, what causes the most pain is actually the attempt to resist feeling, or the shame that grows up like thorns around it.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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