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“Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Time cannot be broken; that is our greatest burden. And our greatest challenge is to live in spite of that burden.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever,”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Who does not remember, that at such a time as this, the eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of its sorrow, and sees in innumerable far-off places the woe which is close at hand?”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Assignation