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“Is it better to out-monster the monster or to be quietly devoured?”
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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Maxims
― Maxims
“And you tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying and strange and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.”
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“I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.”
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
― Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend
“I have so much love in me that I would like to cry;”
― Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
― Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
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