Is this not the true
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
– Thomas Wolfe
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- Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other’s eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. – Maggie Gallagher
- The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it. – Anonymous
- The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe
- Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. – Thomas Wolfe
- The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe
- Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. – Thomas Wolfe
- Loneliness… is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. – Thomas Wolfe
- If we believe a thing to be bad, and if we have a right to prevent it, it is our duty to try to prevent it and damn the consequences. — Lord Milne
- War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
- War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann