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“If I have learned anything over this last year it’s that you have to live your own life too so that if something we hoped for doesn’t work out, you still have two legs to stand on, you still have your own path.”

— T.S. Krupa

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Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

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— Henry Miller, from a letter to Anais Nin, featured in A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller.

[Text ID: Give me a few days of peace in your arms-I need it terribly. I'm ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.]

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“Marianne had the sense that her real life was happening somewhere very far away, happening without her, and she didn’t know if she would ever find out where it was or become part of it.”

— Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”

― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

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But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.

Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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“I will be all that I am capable of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

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“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”

— Ella Jane Fitzgerald

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Mercy, Mercy Me, John Murillo

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“All I can hear now is the sound of my own heart, opening and closing, opening and closing, opening.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

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“Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”

— Charles Bukowski

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“And wasn’t it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn’t it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one’s life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person…that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?”

— Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth

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“The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it’s all that matters.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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“At one time people conveniently ‘went mad’ and were never heard from again. Like a character in a romantic novel. But now… you are too hip to yourself on a psychological level. You are all too intimate with too many of the symptoms of insanity to be caught completely off your guard. Another thing: all of you have a talent for releasing frustration through clever fantasy.”

— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest