arguments and unhappiness, and when anger overcame me at such times, I was a terror, doing and saying things whose vileness I felt deeply and painfully at the very moment I did Demian
She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. Midnight Library
Beauty had this penalty -- it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life -- froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added a quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty. To the Lighthouse
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Never Give In!
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