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One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you ...more

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I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pretense of liking. I saw that even my love for those ...more

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This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be fine...more

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There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.

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If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises ...more

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In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went...more