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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Love is never any better than the lover.”
― The Bluest Eye
― The Bluest Eye
“It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes makes its way to the surface.”
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― A Room of One’s Own
― A Room of One’s Own
“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”
― As I Lay Dying
― As I Lay Dying
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