In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.' What is it then?' It is the only way a powerless person can find to make everybody else look away from his shame. The wish is not to die, but to hide.
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Orson Scott Card
I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one flavour of remorse were detected; and I do not want sacrifice, sorrow, dissolution - such is not my taste. I wish...
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Anonymous
[She] had heard it said that there was only one emotion which, in recollection, was capable of resurrecting the full immediacy and power of the original–one emotion that time could never fade, and that would drag you back any number of years into the pure,...
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Laini Taylor
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Jonathan Swift
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.
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Charles Dickens
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Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.
Anna’s conclusions were these: That fire is beautifully cruel. That fusion occurs only at a specific heat. That blood, in fact, can boil. That the dissolution of an affair is an entropic reaction, and the disorder it tends toward is flammable. That a heart will...
Anna loved and didn’t love sex. Anna needed and didn’t need it. Her relationship with sex was a convoluted partnership that rose from both her passivity and an unassailable desire to be distracted.
There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.
