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"I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?"
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"Who can claim to know you more than you know yourself? You have been with yourself all your life, after all."
"All answers that you seek can only be found within."
"You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen. Your inner self has to say something to you. Listen to that eternal entity within, and you shall discover the way through which you'll reach your goal."
"If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."
"A brutal, relentless self-analysis lies at the heart of all despair."
"I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried."
"Sometimes you should ask yourself if the world would be a better place without your existence, then you would know if you are on the right path or not."
"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues."
"We cannot face up to what lies ahead, without facing up to what lies within."
"When I awake thinking of dreams I slept on, I often wonder, if the dreams ever wake up thinking of me?"
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"Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by."
"All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem."
"As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections."
“The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.”
"It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology."
"Future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press."
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