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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.”
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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
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