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“I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...”
― Camilo José Cela, La familia de Pascual Duarte

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“A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.”
― Djuna Barnes

tags: jungism, personhood, shadow-self

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“But I’d better not go to fast in my story, for all things want their order, and no matter how early one gets up, dawn doesn’t come any sooner.”
― Camilo José Cela Conde, The Family of Pascual Duarte

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“It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.”
― Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary

tags: paraphrased

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“She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set on such a sure course that the things she read might stop seeming so powerfully like alternate directions for her being.”
― Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain

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