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“And he would go back to his corner, sit down, hide his face in his hands and again sink into dreams and reminiscences… and again he was haunted by hopes.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Possessed - Book II, Chapter Five (trans. Constance Garnett)

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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”

— John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

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I came to a point where I needed solitude, and just stop the machine of “thinking” and “enjoying” what they call “living.” I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

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“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Goodbye to Love - Carpenters (A Song for You, 1972)

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#art #love #optimism

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“I was ashamed when I realized that life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.”

— Franz Kafka

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#8bit

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"The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again."

—A tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki

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Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

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“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”

— Albert Camus; The Fall

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audrey emmett

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Young Girl on a Red Carpet, 1912. Felice Casorati