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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
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“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“He that increaseth wisdom, increaseth sorrow.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
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