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"The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That's how you learn who you are."
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"You have to know yourself enough to be able to choose friends that you will be compatible with."
"For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"We make such messes in this life, both accidently and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything any neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are."
"As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man."
"Are you like, a crazy person?I'm quite sure they will say so."
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"To persevere is one thing, but to push on ignoring your intuition is something quite different. Self-awareness is the practice of learning the difference."
"Look in the mirror and be sure you're living out the person you see and not a shadow."
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"In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library."
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"If you take a moment to consider the state of the world, the thing you notice is that there are plenty of babies being born; the planet doesn't really need all of us to produce more babies."
"The scabs feel like I have a message on my arm. Something that needs to be read, urgently, by someone. It was only years later that I realized the person I had written that message to- the person who wasn't listening- was me. I was the one who should have been staring at that arm, and working out what the red hieroglyphics meant. Had I translated them, I would have realized those red lines read: 'Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this- then steer away from here."
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"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."
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