“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then we do not love them: we only love the reflection of ourselves we find in them”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.”
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“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”
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