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“To become a person does not necessarily mean to be well adjusted, well adapted, approved of by others. It means to become who you are. We are meant to become more eccentric, more peculiar, more odd. We are not meant just to fit in. We are here to be different. We are here to be the individual.”
― Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
― Through the Dark Wood: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
“Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.”
― Disgrace
― Disgrace
“People don’t really care all that much about their own death. What they really worry about, their one real fixation, is how to avoid physical suffering as much as possible.”
― Submission
― Submission
“For the first time in my life I began to realize that it is not evil and brutality, but nearly always weakness, that is to blame for the worst things that happen in this world.”
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“You really can't do anything about people's lives, I said to myself, neither friendship nor compassion nor the intelligence of the situations is of any use: people manufacture the mechanism of their own misfortune, they wind it right up and the mechanism goes on turning”
― Serotonin
― Serotonin
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