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The Lying Life of Adults

by Elena Ferrante

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

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The Alchemist

by Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)

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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening

tags: despair, self

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

tags: living, social-anxiety, yearning

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