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Sometimes, it’s totally confusing to be me! Only writing in my diary helps me feel a little less crazy.
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
-Book 2, chapter 1”
― Mere Christianity
-Book 2, chapter 1”
― Mere Christianity
“We have concluded that the young are in a state of disabling despair. While more clear-minded, in some ways, than their elders—that is, more able to voice and maintain criticism of wrongs and faults—they are not able to believe in their own effectiveness.”
― Report on the Threatened City
― Report on the Threatened City
“The fact is that you don't know strangers well enough to reject them. if you don't want to go on the lunch date, it probably has more to do with you-your schedule, your unwillingness to meet someone new, your mood.”
― How To Communicate: The Ultimate Guide To Improving Your Personal and Professional Relationships
― How To Communicate: The Ultimate Guide To Improving Your Personal and Professional Relationships
“...and I shambled after as usual as I’ve been doing all my life after people that interest me, because the only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yearn or say a commonplace thing ... but burn, burn, burn like Roman candles across the night.”
― On the Road
― On the Road
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