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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

by Italo Calvino

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The Honjin Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #1)

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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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Book cover for You Were Born to Win: Advise to Youth on Living with Purpose and Creating An Undefeatable Self

You Were Born to Win: Advise to Youth on Living with Purpose and Creating An Undefeatable Self by Daisaku Ikeda

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Our destiny does not come from somewhere outside us; it is shaped within our own hearts, day by day. If we find life boring, it might be because we’ve let ourselves become boring. If life seems empty, it might be because we’ve allowed ...more

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“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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“Music fills the infinite between two souls”
― Rabindranath Tagore

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“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

tags: aloneness, community, escape, fear, loneliness, love, relationship, solitude

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer! At long last the search for knowledge will reach out for its due: — it will want to rule and possess, and you with it!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs

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