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Piranesi
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Perhaps that is what it is like being with other people. Perhaps even people you like and admire immensely can make you see the World in ways you would rather not.
“I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“You’re a classic case of Horney’s: the man who comforts himself not with what he achieves, but with what he dreams of achieving.”
― The Dice Man
― The Dice Man
“I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.”
― The Dice Man
― The Dice Man
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