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In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.

Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

Ally Condie, Matched

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Most of us are gifted with the ability to see the monsters hidden within another, but are unable to see past them. It takes a special kind of person to see the light inside of every living being.

Lynette Simeone

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When you are attracted to people, it's because of the details. Their kindness. Their eyes. The fact that they can get you to laugh when you need it the most.

Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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I don't know if you've ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.

Lemony Snicket

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Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Roy T. Bennett

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And I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.

Marion, from the film Another Woman

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I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.

Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

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Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but "steal" some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959

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We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory. Like the images the photographer plunges into a golden bath, our sentiments take on color; and only then, after that recoil and that transfiguration, do we understand their real meaning and enjoy them in all their tranquil splendor.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain (The Century Company, 1919)

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When they ask you what your favorite moment is, you will say her. You will always say her.

Caitlyn Siehl

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I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.

Marc Jacobs

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It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Rumi

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me flirting is just saying “haha yeah same” until we both die

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“you’ll be okay” is such a violent thing to say when nothing feels real

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it’s not that i want to be alone, it’s just that being around people makes me feel even lonelier sometimes