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“A life is such a strange object, at one moment translucent, at another utterly opaque, an object I make with my own hands, an object imposed on me, an object for which the world provides the raw material and then steals it from me again, pulverized by events, scattered, broken, scored yet retaining its unity; how heavy it is and how inconsistent: this contradiction breeds many misunderstandings.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, After the War: Force of Circumstance, Volume I: 1944-1952

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“if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Life is nothing but riddles … we spend our whole lives puzzling them out. Sadly, as soon as we find the answer, the riddle changes. Does it not?”
― Brom, Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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“The heart is an arrow. It demands aim to land true.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

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

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