“Just because a person chooses to express themselves in an extreme way doesn't mean they have an extreme personality.”
― Take Me There
― Take Me There
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
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“Resist much, obey little.”
― Leaves of Grass
― Leaves of Grass
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