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"I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours."

- Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (via larmoyante)

Kurt Vonnegut once said, “What makes life worth living are the saints. … They can be longtime friends or someone I meet on a street. They find a way to behave decently in an indecent society.”

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."

- Margaret Atwood 

"But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via larmoyante)

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"She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances."

- Everything Is Illuminated, Johnathon Safran Foer

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"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."

- David Foster Wallace, This is Water

“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” 
― David Foster Wallace

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said.
But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

André Gide

Today I’m flying low and I’m
not saying a word.
I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep.

—Mary Oliver, from “Today” in A Thousand Mornings (The Penguin Press, 2012)

"I cannot stand small talk, because I feel like there’s an elephant standing in the room… and nobody is saying anything. I’m just dying to say, ‘Hey, do you ever feel like jumping off a bridge?’ or ‘Do you feel an emptiness inside your chest at night that is going to swallow you?’ But you can’t say that at a cocktail party."

- Paul Gilmartin, The Mental Illness Happy Hour 

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“I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.”— Arundhati Roy

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