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understanding self through books

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““The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.””

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And so she did...

I read her first when I was 15. Since then I have read this book a couple of times. I have gone back to her whenever I needed companionship. By reading her story, I felt as if she was listening to me and not the other way around.

Anne Frank. To just take a picture was not enough. I have tried to capture the gross essence of what I feel could be a one sentence Anne Frank story.

She was trapped and hidden, and then she wasn't.

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I don't just love you...

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Now I can be a bitch.

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Love means never having to say you're sorry.

[readpenguin]

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We could be true to history only in heeding her law, which demanded that we plant the roots of our art firmly in the reality of our own life. -Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

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I can find the joy only if I do my work in the best way possible to me. But the best is a matter of standards-and I set my own standards. I inherit nothing. I stand at the end of no tradition. I may, perhaps, stand at the beginning of one.

Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

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Every form has its own meaning. Every man creates his meaning and form and goal. Why is it important-what others have done? Why does it become sacred by the mere fact of not being your own? Why is anyone and everyone right-so long as it's not yourself? Why does the number of those others take the place of truth? Why is truth made a mere arithmetic-and only of addition at that? Why is everything twisted out of all sense to fit everything else? There must be some reason. I don't know. I've never known it. I'd like to understand.

Ayn Rand (The Fountainhead)

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All the Greats

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Among the mountains.

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Christmas all year 'round.

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Onto a new journey.

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It puzzled her endlessly that she was not, and had never really been, interested in happiness. She did not want to be unhappy. Of course, she didn't. It just did not occur to her to seek happiness as a worthwhile goal in life.

Elif Shafak (Three Daughters of Eve)

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There's no wisdom without love. No love without freedom. And no freedom unless we dare to walk away from what we have become.

Elif Shafak (Three Daughters of Eve)