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"“It wasn’t me, brother, sir” Alex whines at his social worker, who has hurried to the local jailhouse. “Speak up for me, sir, for I’m not so bad.”
But Oh Alex, you are so bad and you know it. The opening chapters of this still deliver the shock of the new: a red streak of gleeful evil." — Nov 10, 2017 01:58AM
"“It wasn’t me, brother, sir” Alex whines at his social worker, who has hurried to the local jailhouse. “Speak up for me, sir, for I’m not so bad.”
But Oh Alex, you are so bad and you know it. The opening chapters of this still deliver the shock of the new: a red streak of gleeful evil." — Nov 10, 2017 01:58AM
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
“And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed...
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.”
― This Side of Paradise
“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
― The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
“The thirst for something other than what we have…to bring something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when our sensibility, which happiness has silenced like an idle harp, wants to resonate under some hand, even a rough one, and even if it might be broken by it.”
― Du côté de chez Swann
― Du côté de chez Swann
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