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The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being

by Hale Dwoskin (Goodreads Author)

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Big in Japan

by Cosmin Leucuța (Goodreads Author)

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The Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

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“Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the “divine madness,” to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

tags: anxiety, creative-act, insecurity, mental-illness, sensitivity

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“Vague, foolish sorrow stops at the door of my soul, stares at me awhile, and moves on, he murmured, smiling to himself. A man must read widely, a little of everything or whatever he can, but given the shortness of life and the verbosity of the world, not too much should be demanded of him.”
― José Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis

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“Nu experientele in sine, ci felul in care le interpretam determina calitatea vietii noastre.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

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“Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.”
― Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky

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“Nu ştiu. Îmi lipseşte un simţ, îmi lipseşte un tact
În viaţă, fie pentru amor, fie pentru glorie...
Şi la ce bună oricare istorie,
Sau orice alt fapt?

Sunt singur, singur cum nimeni niciodată n-a stat
Gol pe dinăuntru, fară mai devreme sau mai târziu
Clipele trec pe lângă mine şi par să nu mă ia-n seamă, dar ştiu
Că nu trec uşor, pasul lor este apăsat.

Încep să citesc. Deja mă oboseşte ceea ce n-am citit.
Mă gândesc la unele. Şi mă doare concluzia, oricare ar fi.
Somnul mă apasă înainte chiar să îl am. Ştiu că a simţi
E numai unul şi acelaşi lucru, pe care demult l-am văzut.

Să nu fii nimic, sau doar o figură dintr-un roman, imprecis,
Lipsit de viaţă, sau de moarte materială, doar o idee brută,
Ceva care să nu-şi găsească nici o utilitate, o închipuire urâtă,
Doar o umbră pe un pământ ireal, sau numai o transă în vis.”
― Fernando Pessoa

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