"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."
Carl Gustav Jung
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“I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Nobody wanted your dance,
Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering
Drowning life and your effort to save yourself,
Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil,
Looking for something to give.”

― Ted Hughes, Birthday Letters
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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."

Arthur Schopenhauer
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"If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present."

Lao Tzu
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"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

Lao Tzu
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

Winston S. Churchill
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“So then you’re free?’
‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
― Franz Kafka
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“Please — consider me a dream.”
― Franz Kafka
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“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski
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“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac
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We know what we are, but not what we may be.

William Shakespeare
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I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

Ned Vizzini
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The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.

Nietzsche
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“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.

Everything passes.

That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.

Everything passes.”
― Osamu Daza
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“I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.”
― Osamu Dazai
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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
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“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
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“Shame is a soul eating emotion.”
― Carl Gustav Jung
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