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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

by Haruki Murakami

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Dec 28, 2024 03:16AM

“But she found ways to cope, to tunnel her way out of herself, to climb down. Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxieties, they just learn to carry it.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“Everyone gets a few moments that show who they really are, tiny instances that reveal their entire soul.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“Some people accept that they will never be free of their anxiety, they just learn to carry it. She tried to be one of them. She told herself that was why you should always be nice to other people, even idiots, because you never know how heavy their burden is.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.”
― Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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“I have a great deal of self-knowledge. In everything I do, I can watch myself as if I were a stranger. I can stand across from the everyday Anne and, without being biased or making excuses, watch what she's doing, both the good and the bad. This self-awareness never leaves me, and every time I open my mouth, I think, "You should have said that differently" or "That's fine the way it is." I condemn myself in so many ways that I'm beginning to realize the truth of Father's adage: "Every child has to raise itself." Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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