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“Please know that there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because, I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings but it will always heal even if you don’t want it to, it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It’s up to you to find them.”
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“...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
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“Nu poti sa urasti pe cineva deja infrant.Care, fara tine, nu va mai fi niciodata om intreg.”
― The Magus
― The Magus
“When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. ... I think of the lips I've kissed, and of the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all those things at once. I'm sure there are times when you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness—I can't say it.”
― A Happy Death
― A Happy Death
Fiction of Relationship
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For readers taking the Coursera Fiction of Relationship class with Arnold Weinstein Summer 2013.
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