

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.”
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“I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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