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The Catcher In the Rye by J.D Salinger

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Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results

Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

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Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Henry Rollins

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And I go, ‘oh, I’m getting sad, gotta get the phone and write “hi” to like 50 people’…then I said, ‘you know what, don’t. Just be sad. Just let the sadness, stand in the way of it, and let it hit you like a truck.’ And I let it come, and I just started to feel ‘oh my God,’and I pulled over and I just cried like a bitch. I cried so much. And it was beautiful. Sadness is poetic. You’re lucky to live sad moments. And then I had happy feelings. Because when you let yourself feel sad, your body has antibodies, it has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness. So I was grateful to feel sad, and then I met it with true, profound happiness. It was such a trip. The thing is, because we don’t want that first bit of sad, we push it away with a little phone or a jack-off or the food. You never feel completely sad or completely happy, you just feel kinda satisfied with your product, and then you die. So that’s why I don’t want to get a phone for my kids.

Louis C.K

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When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood

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There’s the story, then there’s the real story, then there’s the story of how the story came to be told. Then there’s what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.

Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood

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Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

1Q84, Haruki Murakami

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You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

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Being honest with oneself is a good exercise. Sigmund Freud

Être honnête avec soi-même est un bon exercice Sigmund Freud

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I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the centre

Player's Piano, Kurt Vonnegut

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls

C. G. Jung

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Imagine a twelve-year-old-girl Imagine her being attacked, raped and murdered Take your time Then imagine God

M. Barin, poet.

From Inspector in Silence, Hakan Nesser

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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.

Banana Yoshimoto

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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.

True Love, Robert Fulghum

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Where there are wars, there will be crows, the carrion-fanciers. And ravens too, the warbirds, the eyeball gourmands. And vultures, the holy birds of yore, old connoisseurs of rot.

Maddaddam, Margaret Atwood

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