Zoë Heller (Zoë Kate Hinde Heller) Quotes

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

Zoë Heller

• Existence
• Possession
• Confronting
• Thinness
• Furnishings

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  • Possession
  • Confronting