You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
AIDAN CHAMBERSA 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.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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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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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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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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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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Yet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real, and not just a crush or an infatuation or a passing fancy
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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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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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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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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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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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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