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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.
“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
― Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“We feel the weather even when we are unaware that we do.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“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 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
“To be alive is to be in a perpetual state of revolution.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
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