“She said I made virtues of her flaws because it was my nature to shelter loved ones from the truth.”
—
Don DeLillo
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— Kurt Vonnegut
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
— Lemony Snicket
“Aware of you, chaotically.”
— Anaïs Nin, in a letter to Henry Miller
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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.”
— Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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“She has something of her very own, something suffered, accomplished, perfected.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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