“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― The Sun Also Rises
― The Sun Also Rises
“Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need.”
― Candide
― Candide
“For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
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“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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