I do not want to be fixed, to be pinioned. I tremble, I quiver, like the leaf in the hedge, as I sit dangling my feet, on the edge of the bed, with a new day to break open. I have fifty years, I have sixty years to spend. I have not yet broken into my hoard. This is the beginning.
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Virginia Woolf, The Waves
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Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
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Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.
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Life became less easy for me: when the body is sad, the heart languishes. It seemed to me that I was half-unlearning what I had never learned and yet knew so well- how to live. Yes, I think it was probably then that everything began.
The Fall by Albert Camus
The Fall by Albert Camus
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