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“People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.”
― Hjalmar Soderberg, Doctor Glas

tags: connection, emotional-deprivation, loneliness, love

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“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
― Albert Camus

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“People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.”
― Milan Kundera, The Festival of Insignificance

tags: communication, life, perspective

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“And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.”
― Milan Kundera, The Festival of Insignificance

tags: existentialism, modernity, narcissism

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