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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.

Aidan Chambers

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERS

Corodes Disease Doe Kill Pity Self
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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Always Being Giving Keep Part Should Somebody Yourself
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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Always Being Crush Flood Flow Love Real River Sea Strength Tide
Readers are made by readers – it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
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Almost Made Obvious Reader
Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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Dislike Even Exist Least Name Saying Speak
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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Alive Feel Name Pleased Saying Speak Wanted
I cannot live without reading.
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Live Read Without
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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Accept Case Clever Imagine Know Mind Sometimes
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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Always Despair Give Giving Hope never Stick Truth Up
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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Excite Full Hurt Joy Sadness Terror
They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Change Depending Proportion Shape Sometimes Unchange
The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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Fact Life Sometimes Styles Unwelcome
I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they’re just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
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Compromise Content Important Language People Thinking
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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Future History Made Past Path Present
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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Anyone Pay Price Should
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Lovely River Strange Thought

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