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it would surely be painful to become a block of ice under your very own skin.


“I am treating you as my friend, asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future plusses.”
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“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
― The Eustace Diamonds
― The Eustace Diamonds

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See

“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.”
― Franny and Zooey
― Franny and Zooey

“Suffering is part and parcel of extensive intelligence and a feeling heart.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
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