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“Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“¿Por qué los llaman desaparecidos y no se atreven a llamarlos muertos? Porque los muertos somos los que los buscamos, ellos siempre, siempre seguirán vivos.”
― Brenda Navarro, Casas vacías

“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

“People want to be loved; failing that admired; failing that feared; failing that hated and despised. They want to evoke some sort of sentiment. The soul shudders before oblivion and seeks connection at any price.”
― Hjalmar Soderberg, Doctor Glas

“We want everything, we want to be everything. We want to experience all the joys of good fortune and the full depths of suffering. We want the excitement of action and the calm of observation. We want the silence of the desert as well as the noise of the forum. Simultaneously we want to be the hermit´s thought and the voice of the people; we want to be both melody and harmony. Simultaneously! How could this be possible?”
― Hjalmar Söderberg, Doctor Glas

“De flesta andra människor verkade helt enkelt ha en avundsvärd förmåga att leva sina liv utan att blanda in sig själva alltför mycket.”
― Therese Bohman, Aftonland