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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

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Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.

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Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.

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There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the...more

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Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.

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Importance of the random: keep brushing up against people, books, experiences we don't yet know what to do with.

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Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

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We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.

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Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

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There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

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Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.

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To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.

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Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

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The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy fr...more