I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
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Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.
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And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
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Silence, I discover, is something you can actually hear.
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I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
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There’s no such thing as perfect writing, just like there’s no such thing as perfect despair.
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I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to get my fill of it – to be fed so much love I couldn’t take any more. Just once.
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The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can’t be learned at school.
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Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.
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Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.
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But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.
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Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back.
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
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Young people these days don’t trust anything at all. They want to be free.
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