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"Never have I felt as strongly as today that I was devoid of secret dimensions, limited to my body, to the airy thoughts which float up from it like bubbles. I build my memories with my present. I am rejected, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to rejoin the past: I cannot escape from myself." - Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)

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“You have made so many enemies?” he asked, with gentle irony.

“Strangers,” she replied. “I seem to make strangers of all the people I meet.”

- D.H. Lawrence, The Complete Works

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“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

— Madeline Miller

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"Besides, though Nietzsche was a seer in many domains, he was no guide to interpersonal relationships - has there ever lived a lonelier, more isolated man?" - Irvin Yalom (Love's Executioner)

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Underrated form of intimacy: you listen to me intently as I endlessly rant about crime and punishment to you

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I love being spoiled, but not with gift or money. Just time and attention.

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“Some people read to confirm their own hopelessness. Others read to be rescued from it.”

— Anaïs Nin, “Ramparts Magazine”

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Wow!!

Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

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Oh my goodness

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gentle Spirit

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Ben Okri (A Fire in my Head).

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"Fie brother, fie! Teach her not thus to lay such violent hands upon her tender life." - William Shakespeare (Titus Andronicus, 1594).

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"He who cannot lie does not know what truth is." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra).

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“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

— Albert Camus

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"I have desired and gazed into the distance too long. I have belonged to solitude too long: I have forgotten how to be silent." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra).

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"Flee, my friend, into your solitude: I see you stung by poisonous flies. Flee to where the raw, rough breeze blows! Flee into your solitude! Flee from their hidden vengeance! Towards you they are nothing but vengeance. No longer lift your arm against them! They are innumerable and it is not your fate to be a fly-swat." - Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra).

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"Hate all, curse all, show charity to none." - William Shakespeare (Timon of Athens, 1606).