“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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