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"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."

"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."

"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."
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"Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else."

"What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?"

"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."

"Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling."

"Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself."

"Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them."

"You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre."
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