The 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
AIDAN CHAMBERSBelief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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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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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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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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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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If you’re passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears.
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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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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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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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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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When 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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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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