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“No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i'm still the same incomplete person. The same missing elements torture me with a hunger that i can never satisfy. I think that lack itself is as close as i'll come to defining myself.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
“It's the same with menus and men and just about anything else: we think we're choosing things for ourselves, but in fact we may not be choosing anything. It could be that everthing's being decided in advance and we pretend we're making choices. Free will may be an illusion. I often think that.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“You cannot enjoy others until you
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
― 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks
enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.”
― 25 Ways to Win with People: How to Make Others Feel Like a Million Bucks
“Wasn't it better if they kept this desire to see each other hidden within them, and never actually got together? That way, there would always be hope in their hearts. That hope would be a small, yet vital flame that warmed them to their core-- a tiny flame to cup one's hands around and protect from the wind, a flame that the violent winds of reality might easily extinguish.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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