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    Rabih Alameddine
    “I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself.”
    ― Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters
    tags: discovery, escape, searching, self-discovery
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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
    tags: 265, raskolnikov, suffering
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina
    tags: family, first-sentence
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
    tags: mystery, unknown
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Isolation offered its own form of companionship”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
    tags: companionship, isolation
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold. Blindly planning for it, envisioning things that weren't the case. This was the working of the will. This was what gave the world purpose and direction. Not what was there but what was not.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
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    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “Too much information, and yet, in her case, not enough. In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.”
    ― Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “Ingratitude to God does not rely only on our refusal to give the verbal thanksgiving due to Him, but also recides in our inability to appreciate his gifts and potentials in us by leaving them untapped.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor
    tags: appreciate, appreciation, food-for-thought, gifts, god, grateful, gratitude, ingratitude, potentials, recide, rely, talents, thankfulness, thanks, thanks-giving
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    Haruki Murakami
    “It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
    ― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
    tags: meanings, words
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    Mark Twain
    “The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Carson McCullers
    “Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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    Carson McCullers
    “I wish I was somebody else except me.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
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    Carson McCullers
    “The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: loneliness
    26 likes

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    Carson McCullers
    “He had a few eccentricities himself and was tolerant of the peculiarities of others; indeed, he rather relished the ridiculous.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
    tags: eccentricities, peculiarities, ridiculous
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    Carson McCullers
    “the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
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    Carson McCullers
    “The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: change-the-world, demonstrate, freedom, liberty, reason
    284 likes

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    The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
    “The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Square Root of Wonderful
    tags: care, caring
    242 likes

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    Carson McCullers
    “I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: strangers
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    Carson McCullers
    “The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
    tags: loneliness
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    Carson McCullers
    “If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are gone, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Carson McCullers
    “I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”
    ― Carson McCullers
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    Carson McCullers
    “She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Member of the Wedding
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    Carson McCullers
    “I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”
    ― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    tags: aloneness, loneliness, longing, understanding
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: eccentric, eccentricities
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    Yasmina Khadra
    “Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.”
    ― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
    tags: life
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    Yasmina Khadra
    “إن من قال لك إن الرجل الذي لايبكي، بجهل ماهي الرجولة، فلاتخجل من البكاء يابني، لأن الدموع أرقى ماتملك”
    ― Yasmina Khadra, The Attack
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    Yasmina Khadra
    “Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent.
    Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.”
    ― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
    tags: arabic, french-quote, yasmina-khadra
    74 likes

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    Yasmina Khadra
    “Celui qui passe à coté de la plus belle histoire de sa vie n'aura que l'âge de ses regrets et tous les soupirs du monde ne sauraient bercer son âme.”
    ― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
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    Yasmina Khadra
    “Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.”
    ― Yasmina Khadra, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
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