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"I can't be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together."
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"The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has-from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness."

"I would follow in your footsteps if I wasn't so busy making my own."

"Be independent, and do what you will."

"A person with a victim complex is incapable of achieving his goal without someone's assistance, advice and prompts."

"Self- reliance is the greatest of all virtues my friend."

"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."

"Independence that has declared its 'independence' from the sure and certain compass of sound morals is nothing more than rogue greed having scantily dressed itself in the garb of independence while running off the cliff of anarchy."

"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."

"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."

"When you are dead you are independent, when you are alive your always dependent. It really doesn't matter are you there or there there is somebody above you, always!"
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"His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him."


"Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand."


"This planet is a broken bone that didn't set right, a hundred pieces of crystal glued together. We've been shattered and reconstructed, told to make an effort every single day to pretend we still function the way we're supposed to. But it's a lie, it's all a lie."


"How strange that we can go from friends to inseparable to hateful then casual all in one lifetime."


"The Sun is an arrogant thing, always leaving the world behind when it tires of us. The Moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It's always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Everyday it's a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of life. The Moon understands what it means to be human. Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections."
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