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“There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?”
― Nails and Eyes
― Nails and Eyes
“We do not realize the extent of the energy we are losing until we find where it is seeping from.”
― Pageboy
― Pageboy
“This life is a long cheat, full of promises that can never be kept, errors that can never be righted, omissions that can never be filled.”
― Silver on the Tree
― Silver on the Tree
“Look for what you notice but no one else sees.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least.”
― Pageboy
― Pageboy
Alain de Botton
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