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"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."
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Personal Development
"At the end of almost every AA meeting, someone read the Promises. One of these was 'We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it'. Dan thought he would always regret the past, but he had quit trying to shut the door. Why bother, when it would just come open again? The fucking had no latch, let alone a lock."
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Personal Development
"But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn."
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Personal Development
"You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town."
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Personal Development
"Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff."
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Personal Development
"With endless pharmacological supplies at our fingertips, we do not need to penetrate the motives behind our actions, feelings, transgressions, dreams, and phobias. High on chemical substances we can remain stagnated in an infantile mental state. Without introspection, we foreclose ourselves from gaining the insight that allows us to navigate adulthood's ceaseless demands."
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Personal Development
"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care."
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Personal Development
"I guess my biggest problem is that I find it easier to relapse than to carry through."
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Personal Development
"I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie."
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Personal Development
"He only drinks when he gets depressed,' said Carrot. 'Why does he get depressed?' 'Sometimes it's because he hasn't had a drink."
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"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
Freedom
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
Dream
"Dreams are necessary to life."
Life
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
Dream
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
Friendship
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
Empathy
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
Attitude
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
Wisdom
"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
Love
"Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning."
Truth
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