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I move, therefore I am.

Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

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“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things — they save you.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted

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“We survived. You and I. And those who survive have a duty. Our duty is to do our best to keep on living. Even if our lives are not perfect.”

— Haruki Murakami, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

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“The future you have, tomorrow, won’t be the same future you had, yesterday.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, Rant

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“Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path — all they do is trip you up.”

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Palace of Illusions

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“We are a landscape of all we have seen.”

— Isamu Noguchi

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“The things you own end up owning you.”

— Fight Club

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Beware the stories you read or tell: subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

— Ben Okri, from A Way of Being Free (Head of Zeus, March 12, 2015)

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What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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– Baal Shem Tov

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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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Verliebt ist derjenige, der wartet.

Roland Barthes, Fragmente einer Sprache der Liebe

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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.

Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of Text

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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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Sometimes you look ahead and see nothing and you're in the middle of the path. Then you see that the path is there only because you have to go further and you're already there.

Rutger Kopland, On the way, a path is no longer a path

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Leaving is not the same as simply going out. You gently close the door behind your existence and do not return. You are someone to wait for. Leaving can be described as a way of staying. Nobody waits because you are still there. No one says goodbye because you're not leaving.

Rutger Kopland, Leaving