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“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”

“To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.”

“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

“In order to understand, I destroyed myself.”

“Love is so short and forgetting is so long.”

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

“We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

“Unless I am myself, I am nobody.”

“The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.”

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”

“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.”

“It is very easy to follow your parents,
it is very easy to follow your teachers,
it is very easy to follow the society,
it is very easy to be obedient --

to be rebellious, to be on your own, is very difficult.

But growth comes the hard way.”

“Where your fear is, there is your task.”

“The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.”

“You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.”

“This is the real secret of life — to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

“Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.”