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“I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.”

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect.”

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”

“All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.”

“Those who are hardest to love need it the most.”

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.”

“As the thing more perfect is, the more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”

“Suffering passes, but the fact of having suffered never passes.”

“The path to paradise begins in hell.”

“A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends”

“Any Idiot Can Face a Crisis; It’s This Day-To-Day Living That Wears You Out.”

“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

“You don't meet the people you love, you recognise them.”