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“Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Most of us can't help but live as though we've got two lives to live, one is the mockup, the other the finished version, and then there are all those versions in between. But there's only one, and before you know it, your heart is worn out, and, as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there's sorrow. I don't envy the pain. But I envy you the pain. (p. 225)”
― André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus