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"Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
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"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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"We are what we believe we are."
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"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
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"Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled."
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"Some people are each envious of the person they used to be."
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"No single bad person regards themselves as a bad person."
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"You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it."
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"To say 'I want to have sex with this person' is to express a desire which is not intellectually directed in the way that 'I want to eradicate poverty in the world' is an intellectually directed desire. Furthernore, the gratification of sexual desire can only ever give temporary satisfaction. Thus as Nagarjuna, the great Indian scholar said: 'When you have an itch, you scratch. But not to itch at all is better than any amount of scratching."
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"And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.He wished that he had never met any of them."
Regret
"This is what I know. I look like my father. My father disappeared when he was seventeen years old. Hannah once told me that there is something unnatural about being older than your father ever got to be. When you can say that at the age of seventeen, it's a different kind of devastating."
Life
"Maybe memories should be left the way they are."
Life
"He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them."
Responsibility
"If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others."
Society
"It still amazes him how they could have been misled by her personality in Year Eleven. It's what depression does to a person, it changes them completely."
Psychology
"And we all end up where we started."
Reflection
"I'd run you know. It's like when you're really busy doing something and you don't have time to think about things. Well, I'd run and run and run so I couldn't think."
Life
"And suddenly I know I have to go. But this time without being chased by the Brigadier, without experiencing the kindness of a postman from Yass, and without taking along a Cadet who will change the way I breath for the rest of my life."
Life
"She knows that feeling too. Of believing that each time someone says her name, it's to tell her that something bad has happened."
Emotion
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