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"Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self."
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"I have enjoyed my company so fondly, I may not feel alone when I am lonely."
"Oh yes, I am frequently driven to an enraged frenzy by the blatantly crass actions of others. But to be painfully honest, that anger is much less driven by the reality of their actions and far more fueled by the realization that everything I am is everything that I hate in them."
"I grab the pillows off the bed and chuck them at the reflection in the mirror of the girl I no longer know. I watch as the girl in the mirror stares back at me, sobbing pathetically. The weakness in her tears infuriates me."
"If you say something and reject any criticism, then your words truly meant to advise yourself."
"I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me."
"But she finally had the good sense to see that a long, dull and predictable future was an expensive price to pay for the satisfaction of a passing sexual attraction."
"Be judgmental to yourself, but be kind and non-judgmental to others."
"When we constantly meditate on another's faults, it is because we are neglecting our own unhealed wounds."
"Your inner light lights up your outer world."
"I am blind to the very things that make for our own peace."
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"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest."
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