Desire, Rene Girard

The ultimate meaning of desire is death.

- Rene Girard, in Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque [Deceit, Desire and the Novel : Self and Other in Literary Structure] (1961), p. 290

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Life, Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

~ Ellen Glasgow ~

Reality, Woody Allen

What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

- Woody Allen