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.
AIDAN CHAMBERSWhen you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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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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Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows.
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The demons of the Devil don’t use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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Doing anything when you’re bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored.
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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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And trust dies from ifs and buts
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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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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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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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The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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