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The contradictory state of longing for intimacy but also wanting to keep others at arm’s length is called the hedgehog’s dilemma.
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Wang Anyi
“But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.”
Anyi Wang, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai

Orson Scott Card
“Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card
“In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

Orson Scott Card
“I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.”
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game

Khaled Hosseini
“For you, a thousand times over”
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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