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“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“I could no more have stopped myself from feeling that sadness than you could stop yourself from smelling an apple that has been cut open on the table before you.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
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