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Reading this for ara and oh my god its actually so fucking good

“One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn’t even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day.”

This guys pretty off his rocker

“I have never been really able to believe that human affairs were serious matters, I had no idea where the serious might lie, except that it was not in all this I saw around me — which seem to be merely an amusing game, or tiresome”

“Oh, I don’t know. Really I don’t know. The next day, and the days following, I didn’t read the papers.“

I def predicted that but I didn’t really predict like when she had done it this book is rlly good and I like the unlocking the memory and remembering how fucked up it was but having it buried for so long

To whom should one talk back in this world if not to what one loves

“If pimps and thieves Were invariably sentenced, all decent people would get to thinking they themselves were constantly innocent, cher monsieur. —that’s what must be avoided above all. Otherwise, everything would be a joke.”

“After all, living aloft is still the only way of being seen and hailed by the largest number”

I like this so far can def see where it’s going but I love the writing style. Postmodernism is just the best

This sum ass

“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance”

I’m actually thoroughly enjoying this there’s just something about the mundanity and despair mixed with sudden bursts of hope that quickly drown in a nihilist outlook on life

“It’s amazing how much your thoughts vary, depending on whether youre standing or seated”

She’d be cool if she wasn’t a mega classist

“It’s a lie when they say you feel healthy in the morning. Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty. Lying in bed each morning, I’m always so pessimistic. It’s awful, really. All kinds of terrible regrets converge at once in my mind, and my heart stops as I writhe in agony”

Midori so real when she said What the hell kind of revolution have you got just tossing out big words that working-class people cant understand if she dies I’ll cry

Really
Like the patients are metal birds metaphor

I KNOW DARCY PAID HIM OFF.

“And as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would have now promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.”

“You chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against a reason, and even against your character? Was not this some excuse for incivility, if I was uncivil?” BRUH SOMUCH HUSTFUCKK V HAPPENED HE FR JUST FUCKING SASLIKE FUCK BABY ILVOE U AND SHE WA SLIKEBAUR

“Pray, my dear aunt, what is the difference in matrimonial affairs, between the mercenary and the prudent motive? Where does discretion end, and avarice begin?”

“There are a few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the the world, the more I am dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of either merit or sense.”

“For I have always seen a great similarity in the turn of our minds. — we are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the éclat of a proverb”

Fyck wickhams stupid ass stg that guys up to smth

“HAVE U ANYTHING ELSE TO PROPOSE FOR MY DONRSTIC FELICITY?”👹

So cute

They should ge ttogether

4:35 on a Tuesday afternoon

Page 388 I’m sorry for what I did to you. My god.

“A reciprocal metaphor. Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of whats outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you were stepping into the labyrinth inside.” It makes sense now

Perhaps most people in the world aren’t trying to be free Kafka. They just think they are” THATS JUST A QUOTE I LIKED BUT GIYSYSUS WVEYRHING CONENNECTS

“The earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone’s living in them.” Ok first of all whatthefuckthatwasactuskkg scary