"One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds"
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"Have you ever had that feeling—that you’d like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?"
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"Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink."
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"Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to keep and what to unload."
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"I wonder what ants do on rainy days?"
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"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning."
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"I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist."
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"Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade."
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"When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it."
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"The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart."
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"Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining."
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"A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully."
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""Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg." Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?"
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"People sometimes sneer at those who run every day, claiming they'll go to any length to live longer. But don't think that's the reason most people run. Most runners run not because they want to live longer, but because they want to live life to the fullest."
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"It feels good to think about you when I'm warm in bed. I feel as if you're curled up there beside me, fast asleep. And I think how great it would be if it were true."
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"Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain."
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"Understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings."
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"Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion"
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"The world is an inherently unfair place."
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"All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says."
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