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"The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again."
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"You are not what you think, but you are the reflection of what you think."
"When you are looking at a person, you are not seeing him; you are seeing yourself through his reflective mirror."
"What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you."
"In the ancient times, when ignorance was the default mode of thinking, Krishna may have proven to be a glorious figure to be adored and relied on in times of distress, but in the modern world of conscientious humans, no Krishna is higher than the Human Self."
"You are one of the most beautiful and unique flowers in the garden of humanity."
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"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
"Hospital vigils inspire us to such nostalgia. Hospital vigils take place in slow-time during which the mind floats free, a frail balloon drifting into the sky as into infinity."
"The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people."
"Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a very dirty peanut across the floor with your nose."
"Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest."
"Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them."
"There are some secrets so toxic you can't share. Especially if you love who it is you'd have to share with."
"Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions."
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