The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

Emma Woolf
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More Quotes By Emma Woolf
  1. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  2. Happiness is the china shop love is the bull.

  3. You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

  4. The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  5. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.

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