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“You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.”
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“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”
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“And hopefully I have changed, you know, as a person. But honestly, if I have, it's because of you.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other”
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