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“The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.”
― Jim Carrey

“I fear silence because it leads me to myself, a self I may not wish to confront. It asks that I listen. And in listening, I am taken to an unknown place. Silence leaves me alone in a place of feeling. It is not necessarily a place of comfort.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
― Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat

“I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you.”
― Anthony Bourdain

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
― Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.

As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Journey to the End of the Night