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    Anne Lister
    “[I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world.]”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I
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    John Milton
    “What hath night to do with sleep?”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Obsessions are the only things that matter.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith
    tags: autism, matter, meaning, obsessions
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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    Anne Lister
    “O books! books! I owe you much. Ye are my spirit’s oil without which, its own friction against itself would wear it out.”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I
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    Anne Lister
    “What a comfort is this journal. I tell myself to myself and throw the burden on my book and feel relieved.”
    ― Anne Lister, I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
    tags: book, journal, writing
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    Anne Lister
    “Were I fit for another world, how gladly would I go there.”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
    ― Mary Shelley
    tags: inspirational
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    Anne Lister
    “Burntâ€� Mr Montagu’s farewell verses that no trace of any man’s admiration may remain. It is not meet for me. I love, & only love, the fairer sex & thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any other love than theirs.”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister: Volume I
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “But mostly, I missed watching you two together; I missed watching you watch him, and him watch you; I missed how thoughtful you were with each other, missed how thoughtlessly, sincerely affectionate you were with him; missed watching you listen to each other, the way you both did so intently.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, couple, hanya-yanagihara, relationship, romantic, willem-and-jude
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    Anne Lister
    “I am very low. The tears gush as I write but, thank God, I generally feel relief from thus unburdening my mind on paper... Oh, how my heart longs after a companion & how I often wish for an establishment of my own, but I
    may then be too old to attach anyone & my life shall have passed in that dreary solitude I so ill endure.”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “Are you happy? he once asked Jude (they must have been drunk).

    I don't think happiness is for me, Jude had said at last, as if Willem had been offering him a dish he didn't want to eat.

    But it's for you, Willem.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, jude-st-francis, melancholic, willem-and-jude
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “and he goes slowly to the wall behind the painting and sees its title;
    WILLEM LISTENING TO JUDE TELL A STORY, GREENE STREET
    ...and he feels his breath abandon him”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: willem-and-jude
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    John Milton
    “Solitude sometimes is best society.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: companionship, privacy, solitude
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    Anne Lister
    “How sweet the thought that there is (still) another & better & happier world than this.”
    ― Anne Lister, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “We are so old, we have become young again.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, cyclical, hanya-yanagihara, old, reverting, young
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: frankenstein, gothic, horror, mary-shelley
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    John Milton
    “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Lost
    tags: inspirational, religion
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, looking, searching
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: change, human
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    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
    “Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
    ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
    tags: life
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    John Milton
    “So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”
    ― John Milton
    tags: paradise-lost-bk-iv
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    Sylvia Plath
    “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: writing
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, missing, sad
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    Jane Austen
    “I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
    ― Jane Austen, Emma
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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Don’t you know I love you?â€� Carol said.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, Carol
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.'

    'Please,' I said.

    And then he did.”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, bittersweet, ending, hanya-yanagihara, last-lines, sad, story, the-end
    95 likes

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    Patricia Highsmith
    “Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.”
    ― Patricia Highsmith, A Dog's Ransom
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    Hanya Yanagihara
    “What is life for? he asks himself. What is my life for?”
    ― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
    tags: a-little-life, hanya-yanagihara, life, meaning-of-life, purpose, questioning
    43 likes



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