"One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish."
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"No mistake about it. Ice is cold; roses are red; I'm in love. And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current's too overpowering; I don't have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I've never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there's no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means I'll be burned up, gone forever."
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"When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it."
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"Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting."
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"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart."
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"I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself."
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"There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate."
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"You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less."
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"My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. “Hold tight,” I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to."
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"Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant."
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"It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart."
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"Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves."
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"Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away."
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"If you think of someone enough, you’re sure to meet them again."
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"In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be."
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"As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around."
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"I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling."
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"There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being."
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"There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell."
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"Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness."
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