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For a long time now, every meeting with another human being has been a collision. I feel too much, sense too much, am exhausted by the reverberations after even the simplest conversation.
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
― Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
― Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
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