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“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn’t really care.”
― Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
― Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Cutting for Stone
― Cutting for Stone
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
― Einstein’s Dreams
― Einstein’s Dreams
“Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.”
― Good Morning, Midnight
― Good Morning, Midnight
“I have had a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
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