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EJ’s Quotes

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
― John Quincy Adams

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“You’re all so fucked up in such endlessly fascinating ways that I can’t help but love you. And if you love someone you want to know them, get them, get inside them… so to speak.”
― Aaron Posner, Stupid Fucking Bird

tags: art, humor, love, people, performing, psychology, writing

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“I realized then how difficult it is to separate the two. The expectations that others place on us help us form our expectations of ourselves.”
― Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

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“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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“As long as we desire, we can do without happiness: we expect to achieve it. If happiness fails to come, hope persists, and the charm of illusion lasts as long as the passion that causes it. So this condition is sufficient in itself, and the anxiety it inflicts is a sort of enjoyment that compensates for reality… Woe to him who has nothing left to desire… We enjoy less what we obtain than what we hope for, and we are happy only before being happy.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Julie, or the New Heloise

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