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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
― The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“فليتك تحلو والحياة مريرة
وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ
وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ
إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
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وليتك ترضى والأنام غضابُ
وليت الذي بيني وبينك عامر
وبيني وبين العالمين خرابُ
إذا صح منك الود فالكل هين
وكل الذي فوق التراب ترابُ”
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“If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
“he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.”
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
― The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
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