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“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

“Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.”

“One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?”

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.”

“Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.”

“I say if your fear of criticism is stronger than your desire for success, you've failed in thought, long before action.”

“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”

“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”

“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”

“The true measurement of a person's worth isn't what they say they believe in, but what they do in defense of those beliefs. If you're not acting on your beliefs, then they probably aren't real.”

“You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.”

“If you believe something, you're automatically precluded from believing in the opposite, which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of this belief.”

“What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.”

“Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.”

“We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”

“Culture is a kind of mass hallucination, designed for middle-aged people. Because culture works best for them, you know, when you're less than middle-aged you're trying to figure out the rules of this collective hallucination, if you're past middleage and you have been paying attention you know it's bullshit so you don't care anymore.”

“To suffer without complaint is the only lesson we have to learn in this life.”

“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”