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“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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