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“I think, therefore I doubt.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.”
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“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“Although I had once pinned all my hopes on putting myself through school, believing I could thereby make something of myself, I now realized the futility of this all too clearly. No amount of struggling for an education is going to help one get ahead in this world. And what does it mean to get ahead anyway? is there any more worthless lot than the so-called great people of this world? What is so admirable about being looked up to by others? I do not live for other. What I had to achieve was my own freedom, my own satisfaction. I had to be myself.”
― The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
― The Prison Memoirs of a Japanese Woman
“If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.”
― The Painted Veil
― The Painted Veil
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