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I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I."
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I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time."
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You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all."
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
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Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It`s always there, though."
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Sometimes, when I don’t feel like reading, I like to think of the books in my library as I do the stars in the sky. There’s something about looking at them that just does the mind good."
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I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words."
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You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only."
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You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken."
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
(via immortels)
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I’m a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires."
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via sleighsmiths)
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Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
