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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Either/Or by Elif Batuman

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It had always been part of my identity to feel more objective than either of my parents—to be able to choose between their views, to retain the parts I found useful and discard the rest.

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“Punctuation, is? fun!”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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“A child may not know how to feed itself, or what to eat, yet it knows hunger.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

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“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

tags: happiness, loneliness, melancholy, philosophy, psychology

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“The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.”
― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

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“I want to be someone strong and brave enough to make hard choices. But I want to be fair and loving enough to make the right ones.”
― Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy

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