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- "choose to look differently"
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- "the real, no-bullshit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: how to keep from going through your comfortable, prosperous, respectable adult life dead, unconscious, a slave to your head and to your natural default setting of being uniquely, completely, imperially alone day in and day out"
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- "learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think"
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- "I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough."
- "I’ve got something he can never have.”
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- "The steadier our lives, the more likely we are to make decisions that will make them even steadier."
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- "She was also the first girlfriend who was just as independent as he. “With Heather, there’s no separation anxiety,” said Mr. Yang, also 34, who now runs Factor, a marketing firm in Manhattan. “There’s no ‘When are you coming home? Which is more important, your work or me?’"
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- "You have to decide what you want, and you have to find that way of doing it, whether or not the outside circumstances are going to participate in your success…"
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- "our constant escapism from our own lives is our greatest source of unhappiness"
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- "An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being."
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- "Reading is actual collaboration with the writer’s mind"
— Ursula K. Le Guin -
- "Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."
♔ ArtConfection
@bonnieschen
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