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Free Yourself from Death Anxiety: A CBT Self-Help Guide for a Fear of Death and Dying

by Rachel E. Menzies

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The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

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“Are you a painter, too?” “No,” Carol said with another smile. “I’m nothing.” “The hardest thing to be.”

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“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
― Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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“When you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

tags: hope-and-despair, wisdom

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“You said I killed you-haunt me, then! [...] Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“You must never be fearful of what you are doing when it is right.”
― Marie Curie

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“Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: handmaid-s-tale, offred, reality-check, remember

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