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"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."
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Personal Development
"Milly Brush once might almost have fallen in love with these silences."
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Personal Development
"Hatred may keep a body warm, but it takes a lot to keep the fire stoked, so unless a person is extraordinary in some way, some people are not worth hating, just like they're not worth loving."
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Personal Development
"I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea."
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Personal Development
"There's no way to tell what will make someone break down in tears. There are some who will cry at the merest melancholy word, and there are some who need the longest, cruelest speech to even dampen one eyelash. There are those who will cry at any sad song but no sad book, and there are those who are immune to the most saddening newspaper articles but will weep for days over a terrible meal. People cry at silence or at violence, in a graveyard or a schoolyard."
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Personal Development
"The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone."
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Personal Development
"It was juvenile, he knew, this need to assign blame, but everyone had a right to childish emotions from time to time, didn't they?"
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Personal Development
"I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls."
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Personal Development
"What will I do if I find myself with a heart?" "Lose it constantly, I imagine."
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"People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions."
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
People
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
Life
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
Ethics
"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
Old
"Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive."
Life
"The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts."
Technology
"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
Technology
"Remember travel agents? Remember how they just kind of vanished one day? Well, that's where all the other jobs that once made us middle class are going, to that same magical, class-killing, job-sucking wormhole into which travel agency jobs vanished, never to return."
Technology
"I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend to gravitate towards the classics, but those aren't the books that give you the same sort of hope for the world that a cherished book does."
Reading
"Hi! I'm Ethan, I shop at Ikea. I bought a $300 dining suite and it took me three days to assemble!"
Humor
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