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“I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.”
― L'Étranger
― L'Étranger
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”
― Everything Is Illuminated
― Everything Is Illuminated
“People don't save other people. People save themselves.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
― Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
“Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void.”
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
― Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
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