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“Our fate stands before us and we provoke him. Less out of pride than out of awareness of our ineffectual condition. We, too, sometimes feel pity for ourselves. (...) Yet the most daring among us are the ones who feel it.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“It was enough to make her want to sit down on the ground and cry. It was too much. But there was no one else, so it couldn't be too much. It had to be exactly enough. It had to be what she could handle, and she had to handle it”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“We are all capable of great self-deception when it serves us.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest