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"What tipped the scales was that psychology involved working with rats."
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"When animals behave like humans or when humans behave like animals, don't be surprised because in every animal there is a human and in every human there is an animal!"

"Help does not come from anywhere outside - it comes only from within ourselves."

"Dwelling on thoughts gives birth to feelings."

"I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely."

"It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing attainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a regular girl with a weird relationship with food and frequent crankiness who's kinda bossy, then I had to basically start liking a whole different person."

"But he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude."

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!"

"You get caught in being something, being cool or special or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do."

"Never cry for the same reason twice."

"In that strained, still second when her eyes met Christina Tomas's before she took the forms, she shrank. She shrank like a dried leaf. She had spoken English all her life, led the debating society in secondary school, and always thought the American twang inchoate; she should not have cowered and shrunk, but she did. And in the following weeks, as autumn's coolness descended, she began to practice an American accent."
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"The little things, I can obey. But the big things - how we think, what we value - those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone - or any society - determine those for you."

"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people."

"After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left."

"So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things."

"It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be."
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