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“Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business,
Why not find a better job?”
― Hafez, The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope

tags: anxiety, overthinking

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“Cultural history, as well as observation of ourselves and others, allow the following answer: Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.”
― Peter Wessel Zapffe, The Last Messiah

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“In a world of stressful lack of control, an amazing source of control we all have is the ability to make the world a better place, one act at a time.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping

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“How can I describe my life to you? I think a lot, listen to music. I’m fond of flowers”
― Susan Sontag, Death Kit

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“Feeling of discontinuity as a person. My various selves—how do they all come together? And anxiety at moments of transition from one “role” to another. Will I make it fifteen minutes from now? Be able to step into, inhabit the person I’m supposed to be? This is felt as an infinitely hazardous leap, no matter how often it’s successfully executed.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: anxiety, different-selves, self, transition

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Goodreads România — 3728 members — last activity Oct 01, 2026 10:00AM
Salut, începe aici. Ai o carte pe care vrei s-o discuți cu alții? vezi ce cărți avem în bibliotecă și poți să îți găsești un partener de lectură. ...more

Haruki Murakami Book Group — 5980 members — last activity Oct 01, 2026 03:27AM
Discuss all things Haruki Murakami: novels, short stories, non-fiction, books about HM, translation projects, related music/film, interviews, symbolis ...more

Read-A-Thon Romania — 34 members — last activity Apr 26, 2019 10:31AM
Bine ați venit în clubul de lectură Read-A-Thone Romania! ❤️️

readers advisory for all — 5772 members — last activity Jul 14, 2026 02:35PM
life's too short to read crappy books. this is why readers' advisory exists. feel free to join if you are looking for "a book like____" or "a book tha ...more

The Next Best Book Club — 26428 members — last activity 21 hours, 45 min ago
Are you searching for the NEXT best book? Are you willing to kiss all your spare cash goodbye? Are you easily distracted by independent bookshops, bi ...more

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