I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.
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| — | Edgar Allan Poe (via bluedreamicecream) |
She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.
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| — | Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (via kerryquotesquotes) |
