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And so I laughed because this was life, and a part of mine was over now and nothing exploded and no light was revealed.
“Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I've forgotten, I don't know for sure.”
― Cathedral
― Cathedral
“I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare -- or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad -- who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”
― My Man Jeeves
― My Man Jeeves
“Only prisoners have time to read, and if you want to engage in a twenty-year long research project funded by the state, you will have to kill someone.”
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“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“We go from disappointment to disappointment, from hope to denial, from expectation to surrender, as we grow older, thinking or coming to think that what was wrong was the wanting, so intense it hurt us, and believing or coming to believe that hope was our mistake and expectation our error, and that everything the more we want it the more difficult the having it seems to be.”
― In Love
― In Love
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