“I have always loved too much, or not enough.”
— Dorianne Laux, “After Twelve Days of Rain” (via perrfectly)
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Biblioteca Joanina, Coimbria, Portugal,
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via perrfectly)
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“You were lying in the solitude of your own heart.”
— Clarice Lispector, from The Complete Stories: “The Message,”
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Chattanooga Daily Times, Tennessee, November 26, 1936
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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
-Jane Austen
(Pride and Prejudice)
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“Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry.
“And what is beauty?”
“Terror.”
“And if beauty is terror,” said Julian, “then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?”
“To live,” said Camilla.
“To live forever,” said Bunny.
- Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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