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Martyr!
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“I don’t mean what do you do for school or money,” Zee said. “I’m asking what do you do. What do you love?”
“Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
“Most of us have enough areas in our lives where we have to meet others’ expectations. Let your running be about your own hopes and dreams.”
― Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner
― Meb For Mortals: How to Run, Think, and Eat like a Champion Marathoner
“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“What does tamed mean? It's something that's been too often neglected. It means to create ties.”
― The Little Prince
― The Little Prince
“Just forgive yourself, it’s too exhausting not to.”
― Deep Cuts
― Deep Cuts
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