“Impossible, I realize, to enter another’s solitude. If it is true that we can ever come to know another human being, even to a small degree, it is only to the extent that he is willing to make himself known. A man will say: I am cold. Or else he will say nothing, and we will see him shivering. Either way, we will know that he is cold. But what of the man who says nothing and does not shiver? Where all is intractable, here all is hermetic and evasive, one can do no more than observe. But whether one can make sense of what he observes is another matter entirely”
― The Invention of Solitude
― The Invention of Solitude
“In a world full of lies, the most dangerous ones are those we tell ourselves.”
― The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
― The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
“When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.”
― Dear John
― Dear John
“I think reality is overrated.”
― One Day
― One Day
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