Jostein Gaarder

I didn’t feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.

I didn’t feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.

– Jostein Gaarder –

The Ringmaster’s Daughter

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Jeffrey Eugenides

Wouldn’t it be nice to be done with it? To be done with sex and longing? Mitchell could almost imagine pulling it off, sitting on a bridge at night with the Seine flowing by. He looked up at all the lighted windows along the river’s arc. He thought of all the people going to sleep or reading or listening to music, all the lives contained by a great city like this, and, floating up in his mind, rising just above the rooftops, he tried to feel, to vibrate among, all those million tremulous souls. He was sick of craving, of wanting, of hoping, of losing.

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