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❝ Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it. ❞ ❝ Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming. ❞ ❝ This is the only story I will ever be able to tell. ❞ ❝ But how, how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder? ❞ ❝ Are you happy here? ❞ ❝ But isn’t it also pain that often makes us most aware of self? ❞ ❝ Our own selves make us most unhappy, and that’s why we’re so anxious to lose them, don’t you think? ❞ ❝ Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. ❞ ❝ It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially. ❞ ❝ Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones that I did not. ❞ ❝ Love doesn’t conquer everything. And whoever thinks it does is a fool. ❞ ❝ There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. ❞ ❝ I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive. ❞ ❝ I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way. ❞ ❝ How did they get there? When did this happen? ❞ ❝ Anything is grand if it’s done on a large enough scale. ❞ ❝ Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness. ❞ ❝ I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all. ❞ ❝ Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn’t be any other way. ❞ ❝ It is easy to see things in retrospect. ❞ ❝ What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? ❞ ❝ I no longer have the ability to travel as freely as I would like. ❞ ❝ After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great. ❞ ❝ How quickly he fell; how soon it was over. ❞ ❝ They understand not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. ❞ ❝ Someone – was it van Gogh? – said that orange is the color of insanity. ❞ ❝ I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever. ❞ ❝ It is dangerous to ignore the existence of the irrational. ❞ ❝ Who is in control here? ❞ ❝ I think it’s good to change the place where one sleeps from time to time. I believe it gives one more interesting dreams. ❞ ❝ It’s a terrible thing, what we did. ❞ ❝ I had never been warm in my life, ever. ❞ ❝ It is a terrible thing to learn as a child that one is a being separate from all the world. ❞ ❝ It does not do to be frightened of things about which you know nothing. ❞ ❝ You are like children. Afraid of the dark. ❞ ❝ It’s beautiful here, but morning light can make the most vulgar things tolerable. ❞