The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

 

"Perhaps it is only by a kink in my nature, strong in me even in those days, that I felt in such an existence, the share of the great majority, something amiss. I recognized its social value. I saw its ordered happiness, but a fever in my blood asked for a wilder course. There seemed to me something alarming in such easy delights. In my heart was a desire to live more dangerously. I was not unprepared for jagged rocks and treacherous shoals if only I could have change–change and the excitement of the unforeseen." 

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The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham

Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

 

"They don't have any tender, soft organs where a blob of slime can attach itself like a tumor and, completely independent of their volition, start living its own life."

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Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys

"When I got out into the Place de l'Odéon I am feeling happy, what with my new hair and my new hat and the good meal and the wine and the fine and the coffee and the smell of night in Paris. I'm not going to any beastly little bar tonight. No, tonight I'm going somewhere where there's music; somewhere I can be with a lot of people; somewhere where there's dancing. But where? By myself, where can I go? I'll have one more drink first and then think it out."

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Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys