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“I am a careful man by nature, and only theoretically adventurous. I was afraid. But on the other hand there is pride.”
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“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“Loneliness is the human condition most rejecting of easy analysis”
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“Maktub’ in Arabic means ‘it is written.’ Write a narrative in which the speaker starts to understand that events, as they happen in his/her life, can be seen not as surprises but as an uncovering- the systematic revelation of fate.”
― Aliens & Anorexia
― Aliens & Anorexia
“Rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave. Until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.”
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