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"In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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"Vulnerability + Action + Positive Thinking = Courage."
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"I think my dad was so fascinated by this idea because he realizedon some fundamental level that he was not in control of his desires:I think he woke up every morning in his nice house with hardwoodfloors and granite countertops and wondered why he desired granitecountertops and hardwood floors, wondered who precisely wasrunning his life."
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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."
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"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."
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"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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"We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic."
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"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."
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"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
University
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
Light
"The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them."
Art
"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
God
"If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. If someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say: 'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!"
Writing
"The sufferings which may be observed nowadays - they are so widespread and so vast - but people speak nevertheless about a certain moral improvement which society has achieved."
Society
"The Lie which elates us is dearer than a thousand sober truths."
Psychology
"And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive."
Philosophy
"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
Hatred
"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about."
People
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