There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
AIDAN CHAMBERSNever give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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She was–I keep using the past tense; I ought to say she is–one of those people who, at first sight, look plain, are quiet, unassertive, unmemorable even. But who, when they start to talk and you get to know them.
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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All the time I think I can never love you more than I already do. And then you do something or say something, and I love you more than ever.
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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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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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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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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You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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