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    Daisy Johnson
    “You cannot lie down behind your badly made decisions and call them fate or determinism or god.”
    ― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
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    Daisy Johnson
    “Forgetting is, I think, a form of protection.”
    ― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
    tags: forgetting, memory, protection, psyche, psychology, safety, the-past
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    Daisy Johnson
    “Anything can be lost if you try hard enough.”
    ― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
    tags: denial, erasure, forgetting, loss
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    Daisy Johnson
    “the thought stays with me through the quiet night. That we are determined by our landscape, that our lives are decided by the hills and the rivers and the trees.”
    ― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
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    Daisy Johnson
    “I was the same as you: less a person and more a hole cut away from everything.”
    ― Daisy Johnson, Everything Under
    tags: damaged, feelings, hurt, sense-of-self
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    Franz Kafka
    “In a way, I was safe writing”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
    tags: safe, way, writing
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    Franz Kafka
    “Since there was nothing at all I was certain of, since I needed to be provided at every instant with a new confirmation of my existence, since nothing was in my very own, undoubted, sole possession, determined unequivocally only by me — in sober truth a disinherited son — naturally I became unsure even of the thing nearest to me, my own body.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-trauma, narcissism, narcissistic-personality, shame
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    Franz Kafka
    “He is afraid the shame will outlive him.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Letter to His Father
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    Madeleine Thien
    “The only life that matters is in your mind. The only truth is the one that lives invisibly, that waits even after you close the book. Silence, too, is a kind of music. Silence will last.”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
    tags: music, protest
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    Madeleine Thien
    “The present is all we have, yet it is the one thing we will never learn to hold in our hands.”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
    tags: mindfulness, philosophy, presence
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    Madeleine Thien
    “I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
    tags: hope, poetry, revolution
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    Madeleine Thien
    “What happened if you melted a person down layer by layer? What if there was nothing between the layers, and nothing at the centre, only quiet?”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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    Madeleine Thien
    “Their great fear was not death, but the brevity of an insufficient life.”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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    Madeleine Thien
    “But was a miracle still a miracle if it came too late?”
    ― Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: life
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: close, extremely, foer, incredibly, jonathan, living, loud, safran
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “My life story is the story of everyone I've ever met.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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    Jonathan Safran Foer
    “Every moment before this one depends on this one.”
    ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
    tags: moment
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    Kazuo Ishiguro
    “Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
    ― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
    tags: 208, solitude
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: the-master-and-margarita
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “Yes, man is mortal, but that would be only half the trouble. The worst of it is that he's sometimes unexpectedly mortal—there's the trick!”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: mortality
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    Mikhail Bulgakov
    “No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.”
    ― Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
    tags: fate, master-and-margarita, mikhail-bulgakov
    57 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: pain
    1710 likes

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    Haruki Murakami
    “That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    1120 likes



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