"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."




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"I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others - young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."




-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald







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"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."



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"What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?"




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-Frankenstein, Mary Shelley