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Never give up, her mother, Fiona, used to say. Essentially, endure. Bend but don’t break. It is better to be strong than to be loved,
Is it a false dichotomy? Could one not be both strong and loved?
“I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.”
― The Three Musketeers
― The Three Musketeers
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“He—that's Simon Bolivar—was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness. Damn it," he sighed. "'How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!'
"So what's the labyrinth?" I asked her.
"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
― Looking for Alaska
"So what's the labyrinth?" I asked her.
"That's the mystery, isn't it? Is the labyrinth living or dying? Which is he trying to escape—the world or the end of it?”
― Looking for Alaska
“All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.”
― The Three Musketeers
― The Three Musketeers
“In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.”
― The Scarlet Letter
― The Scarlet Letter
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