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“Why do I keep a notebook at all? It is easy to deceive oneself on all those scores. The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. ...... Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment
of loss”
― Joan Didion

“Our philanthropy prefers to. recognize the signs of a benevolence. toward sickness where there is only a. condemnation of idleness”
― Michel Foucault

“Men today are such a lonely breed”
― Ryū Murakami, In the Miso Soup

“People often make faces, in private, in front of bathroom mirrors, to convince themselves of their own attractiveness.”
― Jia Tolentino, Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion