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“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Milk and honey
― Milk and honey
“Self-hatred is the inevitable byproduct of the culture of narcissism in which we all have been reared. We learn from day one how special and wonderful we are. Or conversely, and perhaps more pervasively, we do not learn this at all and instead are subjected to glorified views of others through the media whom we idealize and envy. At the root of it all are inappropriate expectations about life, about ourselves, and an overvaluation of self that breeds profound isolation.”
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“The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.”
― John Brown's Body
― John Brown's Body
“You can no more read the same book again than you can step into the same river.”
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
― The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
“Darkness is a knife that peels away the rind of what you think you know about yourself. The shades of your pretenses, the tones of your illusions, the layers of deception that glaze your life into the colors that tint your world–all mean nothing in the darkness. No one can see them, not even you.
Darkness hides everything except who you really are”
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Darkness hides everything except who you really are”
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