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“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Days of Abandonment

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I would always rather be happy than dignified.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

“An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come”
― Victor Hugo

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski