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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
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"How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known?"
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Personal Development
"He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast."
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Personal Development
"Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone."
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Personal Development
"We are but a bunch of neurons."
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Personal Development
"Age had not made him less handsome, as is so often the case; it had simply made him less visible."
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Personal Development
"He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast."
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Personal Development
"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man."
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Personal Development
"Man is a problem-creating animal."
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Personal Development
"Good God, what a mess of draggle-tail impulses a man is--and a woman too, I guess."
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Personal Development
"Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours."
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"I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work."
Psychology
"It seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories and imaginations, but most of us, in our laziness, rarely exercised these capacities, and forever remained in the same room."
Literature
"Women kill themselves because they hope to gain something," said Kadife. "Men kill themselves because they've lost hope of gaining anything."
Mental Health
"Those who can truly see, know."
Philosophy
"The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves."
Life
"Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it."
Life
"I saw myself in the mirror, and from my expression I had a shocking intimation of the rift between my body and my soul. Whereas my face was drained by defeat and shock, inside my head was another universe: I now understood as an elemental fact of life that while I was here, inside my body was a soul, a meaning, that all things were made of desire, touch, and love, that what I was suffering was composed of the same elements."
Introspection
"Every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one s own snowflake."
Life
"What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination."
Philosophy
"I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint."
Psychology
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