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Aleksandar

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The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan W. Watts

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Human desire tends to be insatiable. We are so anxious for pleasure that we can never get enough of it. We stimulate our sense organs until they become insensitive, so that if pleasure is to continue they must have stronger and stronger ...more

Aleksandar’s Quotes

“He has no friends, no living relatives. No one to call. If we are not in someone else’s memory, do we even exist at all?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

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“There’s only two places anyone can find peace—the woods and the grave.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

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“The reason that so many people don’t really feel happy while they’re building up their success in the eyes of society is that they are living in competition.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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