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I’m sorry, I’m awful, I’ve just felt so terribly destructive all week. It’s awful. I’m horrible.

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Quote from Franny by J.D. Salinger in Popular Culture - Quote published by 3 months ago ()

I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness. Skylarks sing in the sunshine, the blue sky, the warm air, in the fresh morning light. The owl flies by night, a dark shadow passing through the darkness; he hoots his sinister, quivering hoot, as though he delights in the intoxicating black immensity of space.

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Quote from A Nightmare by Guy de Maupassant in Popular Culture - Quote published by 5 months ago ()

I equate love (bodies touching indecently) to the limitlessness of being – to nausea, to the sun, and to death.

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Quote from La Scissiparié by Georges Bataille in Popular Culture - Quote published by 5 months ago ()

They hurt me, these small, brutal kindnesses.

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Quote from Free Ham by Marie-Helene Bertino in Popular Culture - Quote published by 5 months ago ()

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

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Quote from What Is Seized by Lorrie Moore in Popular Culture - Quote published by 5 months ago ()

Yes, one could imagine a very pleasant world. A quiet, spacious world, with the flowers so red and blue in the open fields. A world without professors or specialists, a world which one could slice with one’s thought as a fish slices the water with his fin, grazing the stems of the water-lilies, hanging suspended over nests of white sea-eggs…How peaceful it is down here, rooted into the center of the world and gazing up through the gray waters, with their sudden gleams of light.

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Quote from The Mark on the Wall by Virginia Woolf in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

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Quote from Saint Junior by Sherman Alexie in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept anymore.

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Quote from Tongues of Stone by Sylvia Plath in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers.

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Quote from Homelanding by Margaret Atwood in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()

I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones -- that kind of love.

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Quote from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien in Popular Culture - Quote published by 6 months ago ()