“I notice Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
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“His touch both consoles and devastates me; I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.”
Angela Carter, The Erl-King
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“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say.”
Albert Camus, The Fall
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“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself.”
Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life
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“Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?”
Margaret Atwood, Bodily Harm
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“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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“There is no such thing as a ghost of the dead. Yet suffering has a way of begging to be remembered. Sometimes, as a story. Sometimes, as a wraith.”
GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot
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“Voices in the forest tell of dark and twisted enchantments—as dark and twisted as the roots and grasping branches of the trees themselves. Even the most gnarled tree is eloquent in the telling of its own tale.”
Brian Froud
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“Are we living a life that is safe from harm? Of course not. We never are. But that’s not the right question. The question is: Are we living a life that is worth the harm?”
Joseph Fink, The Great Glowing Coils of the Universe (Welcome to Night Vale Episodes #2)
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“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the Earth as though I had a right to be here.”
James Baldwin
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“I loved you in a way I wished someone would love me.”
Mahmdou Darwish
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“I write not as I speak, I speak not as I think, I think not as I ought to think, and so it goes on into the deepest darkness.”
Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice
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“Being brave doesn’t mean you aren’t scared. Being brave means that you are scared, really scared, badly scared, and you do the right thing anyway.”
Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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