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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Only what slips through one's fingers, only what is never expressed in words, has no thoughts, exists completely. That is the price of proximity: you don't see it. Don't know that it's there. Then it is over, then you see it.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Autumn

“What makes you wise is not what you learn, but what you practice. What makes you wealthy is not what you earn, but what you invest. So, invest in what to practice, and practice what to invest.”
― Michael Peshkam

“Top 15 Things Money Can’t Buy
Time. Happiness. Inner Peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“Thіѕ рrосеѕѕ of іdеntіfуіng patterns іn уоur unсоnѕсіоuѕ mіnd аnd аltеrіng уоur соnѕсіоuѕ асtіоnѕ іn rеѕроnѕе tо thеm іѕ what Jung саllеd іndіvіduаtіоn. Thrоugh іndіvіduаtіоn, wе саn соuntеr оur nеgаtіvе сhаrасtеr trаіtѕ, unlосk nеw сrеаtіvе tаlеntѕ, аnd соmе tо tеrmѕ wіth оur реrѕоnаl ѕtrugglеѕ.”
― EasyPrint, ANALYSIS OF Man and His Symbols: An explanation of Jung's theories about archetypes and the unconscious By Carl Jung

“Life's a pitch, as the old woman said. She couldn't pronounce her 'b's.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp 1

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. What then kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me. Not to think of you in the little things. Not to make the road wide for you, the table spread for you. To choose you out of habit not desire, to pass the flower seller without a thought. To leave the dishes unwashed, the bed unmade, to ignore you in the mornings, make use of you at night. To crave another while pecking your cheek. To say your name without hearing it, to assume it is mine to call.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body

“I wanted to be a mirror. I assembled fragments according to a before and an after, I set one inside the other, a story came out. It happened naturally, and I did it constantly.”
― Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing