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It Begins with You: The 9 Hard Truths About Love That Will Change Your Life

by Jillian Turecki

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When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

by Pema Chödrön

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My Tender Matador

by Pedro Lemebel

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“Why is it that, in spite of all the mirrors in the world, no one really knows what he looks like?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism

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“No little part of the torment of existence lies in this, that Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

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“Magic is forgetting the world was ever other than as you willed it.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

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“If you spend all your days bearing the burden of unforgotten wrongs you will only wound yourself.”
― Katherine Arden, The Winter of the Witch

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“Think what you're doing! When you say I, I, I want to exist, it is not you alone that says this. Everything says it, absolutely everything that has the faintest trace of consciousness. It follows, then, that this desire of yours is just the part of you that is not individual - the part that is common to all things without distinction.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

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