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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“We've learned to see the world in gasps.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...”
― susan polis schutz

“Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

“Winter is the season of alcoholism and despair.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“The idea of drowning doesn’t bother me, though, since we’re made of water anyway. It’s kind of like your body overflowing with itself.”
― Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling

“It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
― Albert Camus, A Happy Death

“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
― Albert Camus, The First Man

“I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”
― Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952