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“It is a feature of human nature to give what we most wish to receive.” - Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

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I do not know what the future holds for me however, I do know for sure that the affect I have on you will fade.

It will fade when the essence of someone else smells sweeter to you than mine.

Thepoetesss

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“The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.” - Joyce Carol Oates, Mudwoman

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“Habit accustoms us to everything. What we see too much, we no longer imagine; and it is only imagination which makes us feel the ills of others. It is thus by dint of seeing death and suffering that priests and doctors become pitiless.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

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“We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality

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[beingwayne]

“Often the mass emotions are those which seem the noblest, best and most beautiful. And yet, inside a year, five years, a decade, five decades, people will be asking, ‘How could you have believed that?’ because events will have taken place that will have banished the said mass emotions to the dustbin of history.” - Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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“People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self.” - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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“As Hegel said, tragedy was not the conflict between right and wrong but right and right, a dilemma none of us who wanted participate in history could escape.” - Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

[beingwayne]

“The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.” - John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

[beingwayne]

“I love you because you are not mine, because you are from the other side, from there where you invite me to jump and I cannot make the jump, because in the deepest moment of possession you are not in me, I cannot reach you, I cannot get beyond your body…” - Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch

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“From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.” - Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

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“It’s been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Beautiful and Damned

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[beingwayne]

“This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.” - Augusten Burroughs, This Is How

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[beingwayne]

People often forget the eroticism of connecting through mind & spirit. The way a body tingles when its soul has been stroked by another's. The comfort when someone not only understands you, but feels you.

— Meredith Marple