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He wept on account of his helplessness, his terrible loneliness, the cruelty of man, the cruelty of God, and the absence of God.
“A relationship is like a holiday from loneliness, beginning and ending in the same airport. The most awful thing about the end is that it reminds you so clearly of the beginning with the joy with which you set off. Everything is the same, yet everything has been inverted by grief.”
― The Luxury of Exile
― The Luxury of Exile
“If one knew, he wondered, the facts,
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
would one have to pity even the planets? If one reached what they called the heart of the matter?”
― The Heart of the Matter
“For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.”
― Alias Grace
― Alias Grace
“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”
― A Brief Life
― A Brief Life
“He wept for truth which was dead, for heaven which was void. Beyond the marble walls and gleaming jewelled altars, the huge plaster Christ had no longer a single drop of blood in its veins.”
― Pot Luck
― Pot Luck
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