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And if you constantly reinvent yourself, cut away the parts of you that ashamed or hurt you, then how could you eve come to really know someone? Were people all just living paradoxes, keeping an illusion just long enough to survive contact with others? Were people then all a series of lies in the end?

The greatest happiness fades when it is continual, derived always from the same source, and we ding ourselves exempted from fear and from hope.

Comedy shows us that one must not take life too seriously, and tragedy teaches us what happens when we pay no attention to what comedy teaches us.

"You must have known I loved you, I don't see how I could have hidden it."

"The most dangerous place on earth is inside us."

"Adults always thin they can protect children by stopping them from going to dangerous places, but every teenager knows that's pointless, because the most dangerous place on earth is inside us. Fragile hearts break in palaces and dark places alike."

"There's only way to run away from your own story, and that's to sneak into someone else's."

"The only death I fear is dying ignorant."

"But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave."

"I want you to hold on to that. No matter what happens, you remember that this world is more than the agony it contains, We can have happiness, Salama. Maybe it does not come in a cookie cutter forma, but we will take the fragments and we will rebuild."

"You only truly fall in love when you don't realize it is happening."

"The most sincere pain is experienced alone."

"The eloquence of an explanation is directly proportional to the intelligence of the person expressing it, in the same way as its credibility is proportional to the stupidity of the person listening to it."

"They know the extent of grief isn't measured by what you have lost but ny who you are."

"No one is entitled to success. Sometimes the just fail, and the unjust triumphs. That is why complacency is the most unforgivable of sins."

"If you were in love with me, why didn't you give me a choice?"

"I'll live the focused life, because it's the best kind there is."

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"Ironically, jobs are actually easier to enjoy than free time, because like flow activities they have built-in goals, feedback rules and challenges, all of which encourage one to become involved in one's work, to concentrate and lose oneself in it. Free time, on the other hand, is unstructured, and requires much greater effort to be shipped into something that can be enjoyed."

"The next day you do the same things over again,
Following the same rule as the day before:
That is, by avoiding great, savage joy
You avoid great sorrow as well."

"Books are not mean to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices in life."

"Books are not mean to remain in your mind, but in your heart. Maybe they exist in your mind too, but as something more than memories. At a crossroads in life, a forgotten sentence or a story from years ago can come back to offer an invisible hand and guide you to a decision. Personally, I feel like the books I've read led me to make the choices in life."

Memory may not be the heart of what makes us human, but at least a vital organ. Nevertheless, we must not take care not to let the bliss of the present fade when compared to supposedly better days. We're happy, sure, but were we more happy then? If we let it, memory can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.

Everything will pass, and serenity and accepted mysteries and disillusionments, and the tenderness of a few good people, and new opportunities and ever so much in life, in a word, will remain.

Don't melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can.

"Daxo taught my son to build castles in the sand. Pax cried when the waves came in. Your brother sat him on his knee and told him that is life. Moments you build only to see washed away. But that doesn't mean it's all for nothing. The key is having a long memory for the sweet, and a short one for the bitter." - Darrow

"If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which my answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it." - Flannery Connor to a Professor in English.

“What good is being smarter than everyone if no one listens?”