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“What we seek is some kind of compensation for what we put up with.”
— Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
“I like simple things… books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
— Daphne du Maurier
“To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer and His Shadow, 206
And my sorrow sat next to me, stared at me for a while, then it burst into tears and I remained silent.
— Ghada el-Samman, كنـــا اثنين: أنــــــا وحزني (via Alive on All Channels)
“There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they’ve got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.”
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain
A true friend is someone who sees the pain in your eyes when everyone else sees the smile on your face.
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Jean-Michel Maulpoix, from “Late in the autumn…”, A Matter of Blue: Poems (trans. Dawn M. Cornelio)
[Text ID: “Late in the autumn, when the rain falls with a soft noise, I like to believe that I’m hearing the sky cry.”]
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John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 3 [originally published 1667]
“Don’t let your bad days trick you into thinking you have a bad life”
— @melrobbins
“A society manufactures the heroes it requires.”
— Colson Whitehead, Zone One
“Doesn’t the imagination always exaggerate — or diminish — truth?”
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions
“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall
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