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“The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness.”
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“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
“For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“The world only exists in your eyes-- your conception of it. You can make it as big or as small as you want to. And you're trying to be a little puny individual. By God, if I ever cracked, I'd try to make the world crack with me.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love
100 books to read before you die
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