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“If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.”
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
― The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“Everyone goes through a period of Traviamento - when we take, say, a different turn in life, the other via. Dante himself did. Some recover, some pretend to recover, some never come back, some chicken out before even starting, and some, for fear of taking any turns, find themselves leading the wrong life all life long.”
― Call Me by Your Name
― Call Me by Your Name

“Lust and learning,” Katherine once said. “That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
― Stoner
― Stoner

“For both of us, it had simply been too enormous an experience. We shared it by not talking about it. Does this make any sense?”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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