— James Baldwin, They Can’t Turn Back
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"There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart."
- Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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"One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
- Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
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"I was looked at, but I wasn't seen."
- Albert Camus, The Misunderstanding
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"We men are wretched things."
- Homer, The Iliad
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Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
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Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
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I am in chains. Don't touch my chains.
Franz Kafka
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Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
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I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?
Ernest Hemingway
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am,
I am,
I am.
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all of this nonsense?
Franz Kafka
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An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.
Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl
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I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.
Charles Bukowski
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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
The Collected Poems, Sylvia Plath
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
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Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.
Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes
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