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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“[I] felt abject in my hiddenness, my shadow-life, and because I had spent so long just watching, never acting, I was terrified of exposing my desire. I thought it would be shocking, that it would tear right through the fabric of the world and everyone would see it and know me and everyone would know that I was not a harmless thing, an undesiring thing, but that I had a fire insurgent within me, a buried fire that had been stoked furiously for so long that it would rage through the world if for a moment I let it out.”
― Open, Heaven
― Open, Heaven
“Meeting him feels like learning about a part of myself that I haven’t been allowed to understand until now.”
― Icarus
― Icarus
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