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#1

“I wanted to get the tears out of the way so I could act sensibly.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

tags: sensibility, tears

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#2

“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men”
― Virgil, The Aeneid

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#3

“Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

tags: alone, complain, time, whine, work

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#4

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: character, empowerment, flaws, freedom, gender, identity, image, independence, integrity, realism, self-awareness, self-determination, women

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#5

“Reader, I married him.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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#6

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: aesthetics, appreciation, hidden-things

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#7

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: change, human

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#8

“People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

tags: 263, raskolnikov

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#9

“I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#10

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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#11

“Fear of death is often a justifiable fear of the unknown; of circumstances beyond our personal control which we cannot know and for which we cannot prepare.”
― Sue Black, All That Remains: A Life in Death

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#12

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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#13

“Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

tags: consent, existence, horror, knowledge, western

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#14

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion, Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations

tags: grammar

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#15

“I told him I didn’t want to hurt him, or anyone else. I just feel that sometimes I am better company only to myself, because of what is happening in my life, than I am or would be to anyone else.”
― Jennifer Lynch, The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

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