"They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear."

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Source : Patricia Highsmith (1999). “Talented Mr. Ripley ; Ripley under ground ; Ripley's game”, Random House, Inc.

Patricia Highsmith

#Past Quotes #People Quotes #Realization Quotes

“Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world”

Source : Twitter post from May 15, 2013
“Music is natural law as related to the sense of hearing.”

Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp
“And just like that, the universe goes wrong. Just like that, all the enormity seems to shrink into a ball and float away from my reach. I feel it, and she doesn't. Or I feel it, and she won't.”
“Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.”
“When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.”
“I guess I had this silly notion that things would be different now, since I was different.”
“I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.
“Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.”

Source : "Oscars: The Sad Stories of 9 Acting Nominees Who Committed Suicide" by Scott Feinberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2014.

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