By Category: Other People

“You are closed and shuttered to me now, a room without doors or windows, and I cannot enter. But I fell in love with you under the open sky and death cannot change that.

Death can change the body but not the heart.”

-The Powerbook, Jeanette Winterson

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“You're not even interesting enough to make me sick.”

-The Witches of Eastwick [movie]

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“Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.”

-'Violence', The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf

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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”

-An Unwritten Novel, Virginia Woolf

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“Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.”

-Montaigne, Virginia Woolf

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“Millicent Bruton, whose lunch parties were said to be extraordinarily amusing, had not asked her. No vulgar jealousy could separate her from Richard. But she feared time itself, and read on Lady Bruton's face, as if it had been a dial cut in impassive stone, the dwindling of life; how year by year her share was sliced; how little the margin that remained was capable any longer of stretching, of absorbing, as in the youthful years, the colours, salts, tones of existence, so that she filled the room she entered, and felt often, as she stood hesitating one moment on the threshold of her drawing-room, an exquisite suspense, such as might stay a diver before plunging while the sea darkens and brightens beneath him, and the waves which threaten to break, but only gently split their surface, roll and conceal and encrust as they just turn over the weeds with pearl.”

-Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

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“No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.”

-Orlando, Virginia Woolf

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“Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.”

-The Common Reader, Virginia Woolf

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“You're all objects to me now. That's what I want to say to all my friends, my objects. I needed you all so badly, and it was never enough. Nothing you did was ever enough. So now I have found something that sates me. The burden is off of you. You can use me. I will use you. The slippery element between us, the love I'm always begging for -- that's gone. You should be relieved. I am all mind now. My heart no longer matters. You're safe with me.”

-More, Now, Again, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“Sometimes, I get so consumed by depression that it is hard to believe that the whole world doesn't stop and suffer with me.”

-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“You are more in love with the desire, than the desired.”

-Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin Yalom

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“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

-Shadow Of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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“She soon says, 'You're my best friend, Ed.'
'I know.'
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

-I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak

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