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Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do

by John A. Bargh (Goodreads Author)

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“I’m not worried you’re going to die. I’m worried about you being dead. I’m worried about being alive without you.”
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“It is probably never easy for anyone to return to the place where they grew up, there’s no way to forget who you are there, no matter how hard you’ve tried to become someone else.”
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“Time is a strange concept once you've been abandoned. if you're five years old when your parent leaves you, the leaving didn't happen on one particular day, it happens everyday. It never stops.”
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“The artist would remember being fourteen as feeling like he was always homesick, because he realized as an adult that that was what the emptiness in his chest was: some of us are born in the wrong place, the whole of our childhood is like being shipwrecked on a desert island, we ache with homesickness without knowing what home is yet. That’s all childhood friends are, people stuck on the same island. If you find a single one of them, you can cope with almost anything.”
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“All his childhood the artist had seen adults destroy their surroundings, some with violence and others with silence, sometimes with clenched fists and always with empty bottles. Children have two worlds, the one they have been given and the one they can dream about, but not even the artist had enough imagination to believe it was possible to paint his way out of there. It would take a really, really big idiot to dream anything as grand as that. Thank goodness he had one of those.”
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