The Lover
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It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.”
― Matter and Memory
― Matter and Memory
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
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