"Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity."

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Source : Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

Jean Genet

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“Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2010
“I just want to love and be loved.”
“A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.”
“We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears.”
“Liberalism itself, is, on all matters connected with Church and Education, only a kind of corporate and "respectable" ungodliness.”
“It all depends on which side of the desk you're sitting on.”

Source : "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.
“Did you ever build a castle in the Air? Here is one, brought down to earth and fixed for the wonder of ages.”
“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more”

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