And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThe books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself
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You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There’s always hope.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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A joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.
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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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I cannot live without reading.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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