Dr. Doomstoevsky

betraying myself for nothing • Levi • 25

[mutantoftomorrow]

'All I know is that this sky will last longer than I shall.'

- Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

[mutantoftomorrow]

'He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory'.

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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'She wanted the sea and felt the sheets on her bed.'

- Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

[mutantoftomorrow]

'This would be a good day not to get clobbered by anything.'

- Judith Merril, The Tomorrow People

[mutantoftomorrow]

'Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!'

- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[mutantoftomorrow]

'It isn't enough to be soft. You've got to be soft and attractive. And I--I'm fading now! I don't know how much longer I can turn the trick.'

- Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

[mutantoftomorrow]

'God should be your comfort, but you have made comfort your god.'

- Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires

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'It is ugliness itself that becomes, in the end, the goal of his lechery; beauty has long since grown too weak a stimulant.'

- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

[mutantoftomorrow]

'Was it the most crude truth that all the endless talks which had seemed to her, before they were married, the very medium of love itself, had never been to him more than a preliminary?'

- C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength

[mutantoftomorrow]

I had uttered prayers, fetish prayers, had prayed as heathens mutter charms when I was in extremity; but now I prayed indeed, pleasing steadfastly and sanely, face to face with the darkness of God.

- H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

[mutantoftomorrow]

Reality is actually one thing and language something else.

- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

[mutantoftomorrow]

I don't want you to be grateful, he says. I just want you to be happy.

- Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

[mutantoftomorrow]

He saw the white paper as the great universe of nonexistence.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi

[mutantoftomorrow]

Although her existence was necessary to Shevek her actual presence could be a distraction.

-Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed

[mutantoftomorrow]

Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex.

- Ursula K Leguin, The Dispossessed

[mutantoftomorrow]

Placing his hands behind his head, he felt himself returning to earth after having been suspended for an indeterminate length of time between delusion and enlightenment.

- Eiji Yoshikawa, Musashi