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"Our accepting what we are must always inhibit our being what we ought to be."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."

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"There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be."


"Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them."


"Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say 'I do not know the time' . Without matter time itself is unknowable. Time is a function of matter; and matter therefore is the clock that makes infinity real."


"Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped."


"Everything free and decent in life is being locked away in filthy little cellars by beastly people who don't care."


"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."


"In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me."


"Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism."
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