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"Maybe I was just an empty, futile person, he thought. But it was precisely because there was nothing inside of me that people could find, if even for a short time, a place where they belonged. Like a nocturnal bird seeks a safe place to rest during the day in a vacant attic. The birds like that empty, dim, silent place. If that were true, then maybe he should be happy he was hollow."

hell yeah

Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough.
Through our companionship, we had experienced an exceptional beauty and learned what it was like to encounter infinity through two mirrors reflecting each other endlessly. But the old maxim still applies: where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

"Each time I say goodbye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or stay in the same spot from cradle to grave, life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away. Don't you think?"

"Likewise, for a new Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain."

"I had embarked on an inner journey of Love. How could any harm come out of that? It was my 10th rule: No matter your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. If you travel within, you'll travel the whole wide world and beyond."

"I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go."

not silent enough

Alexandre Dumas je t’aime bien mais abrège stp

"voilà justement ce qui révèle notre origine matérielle; souvent nous passons ainsi auprès du bonheur sans le voir, sans le regarder, ou si nous l'avons vu et regardé, sans le reconnaître."
(This is precisely what reveals our material nature; often we pass by happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or if we have seen it and looked at it, without recognizing it.)

Gotta push through with this one

"Absence separates just as much as death; and suppose that there are between Edmond and Mercedes the walls of a prison, they will be separated no more and no less than if there were there the stone of a tomb."

tryna fight the reading slump like 🤺🤺🤺 also why is the first chapter so dramatic

oui

wow

You know the book is good when you annotate every page