The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.
AIDAN CHAMBERSHowever much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive.
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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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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
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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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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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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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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
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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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Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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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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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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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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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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