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sara
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115/135
"I knew from the outset that I would never find her. Yet it was not in my power to give up searching. She had condemned me to a lifelong quest for a cypher, for someone that did not exist. She should never have done this to me"
— 11 hours, 6 min ago
"I knew from the outset that I would never find her. Yet it was not in my power to give up searching. She had condemned me to a lifelong quest for a cypher, for someone that did not exist. She should never have done this to me"
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sara
is 99% done
'The mistrust I felt for people had turned into spite. I shunned people who tried to get close to me. I was most fearful of those I felt were closest to me, or who I feared might grow closer.'
— 7 hours, 47 min ago
sara
is 74% done
"Ever since boyhood, I’d feared wasting any happiness that came my way; I’d always wanted to save some of it for later. This had caused me to miss many opportunities."
"We’d sit there together, looking at the painting. But still you didn’t recognize me, even though you’d turn your head from time to time, to glance at this stranger who was ruining your concentration."
— Mar 14, 2026 08:52AM
"We’d sit there together, looking at the painting. But still you didn’t recognize me, even though you’d turn your head from time to time, to glance at this stranger who was ruining your concentration."
sara
is 74% done
"I had yet to learn that nothing in this world can ever match the marvels that we conjure up in our own minds"
"When I saw how she was incapable of voicing her true feelings, and how fear and envy contrived to suppress everything about her that was deep and strong, and beautiful – I saw myself"
"If ever I met a woman I found attractive, my first thought was to run away."
— Mar 14, 2026 08:51AM
"When I saw how she was incapable of voicing her true feelings, and how fear and envy contrived to suppress everything about her that was deep and strong, and beautiful – I saw myself"
"If ever I met a woman I found attractive, my first thought was to run away."
sara
is 25% done
35/135
poor raif everyone hates him
'The more I needed my friends, the more I longed to run away.'
'Can there be any sweeter intoxication than exerting power and authority over one of your own kind?'
'He was, I thought, too timid ever to dare to explore his soul, let alone express it.'
'Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another?'
— Feb 12, 2026 10:35AM
poor raif everyone hates him
'The more I needed my friends, the more I longed to run away.'
'Can there be any sweeter intoxication than exerting power and authority over one of your own kind?'
'He was, I thought, too timid ever to dare to explore his soul, let alone express it.'
'Why are we so slow to see this, and why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another?'
