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"I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way."
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"What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!"
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"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
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Personal Development
"When you accept employment, you are admitting that you cannot think or develop yourself."
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"There are people who like to be alone without feeling lonely at all."
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Personal Development
"In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world."
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"When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves."
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Personal Development
"If you should not take your thoughts seriously, then why the thoughts of others?"
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Personal Development
"Dependency on stuff, on people and on things is one of the greatest things that could kill."
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"Goddamn it, do it yourself. You're five hundred years old and you can't use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?"
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"Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here. 'I'm no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself."
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"I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things. I won't make that mistake again."
Growth
"I don't feel like a person at all: I am something to be loaded and unloaded, like a sofa or a cuckoo clock. I am something to be tossed into a junkyard, thrown into the river, if necessary. I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear."
Identity
"Don't fret, we'll sort this out: the true and the not true and the might as well be true."
Truth
"I was raised feral, and I mostly stayed that way."
Independence
"There will be days you wish you'd never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it's only days of regret and notmonths."
Regret
"If I say I don't want to read the book, I don't want to read the book."
Choice
"Compromise, communicate, and never go to bed angry - the three pieces of advice gifted and regifted to all newlyweds."
Marriage
"Amy! My God! My God! My darling!' and buried my face in her neck, my arms wrapped tight around her, and let the cameras get their fifteen seconds, and I whispered deep inside her ear, 'You fucking bitch."
Emotion
"I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, 'the Duchess,' who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite."
Reflection
"I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me."
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