“When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely affect you; it actually defines you. So, you see yourself as a shadowy figure unworthy of developing interest, unworthy of wondering about the world - profoundly unworthy in every sense and deeply absent in your very presence.”
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“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
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