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“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the illusion that they follow their own ideas and inclinations, that they are individualists, that they have arrived at their opinions as the result of their own thinking—and that it just happens that their ideas are the same as those of the majority.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“I have been too unhappy, I thought, it cannot last, being so unhappy, it would kill you”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Wide Sargasso Sea
― Wide Sargasso Sea
“In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves deep and the walls dark, I would push back into the shadows the things that come forward too clearly, I would strip away the useless decoration. I do not ask that this be done everywhere, but perhaps we may be allowed at least one mansion where we can turn off the electric lights and see what it is like without them.”
― In Praise of Shadows
― In Praise of Shadows
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