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“One of the smart behaviors for the readers is, challenging yourself. Which means the determination of the reader to finish a certain amount of readings, in a certain amount of time, and he, or she, can declare his challenge with himself to his parents, or one of his siblings, or close friends, since lots of experiences proved that declaring self challenging to the others helps to achieve and fulfill goals.”

“One of the speed reading techniques: Developing the skill of reading and researching by reading under the pressure of time, which means the achieved reading in a certain amount of time, like a person decides to read specific pages under the condition of finishing them in a specified period. It is not concealed to a mind the rule of this concentrated reading in increasing the amount of information a reader will obtain in a short while.”

“I write to keep their light alive, and to listen for what still echoes in the dark.”

“An unbalanced soul seeks equilibrium. I seek a constitutional form to gather my thoughts. I wish to form a flexible personality. I desire to be gentle and fluid of mind. I wish to summon hidden personal powers, but I lack the knowledge and wisdom to do so. I lack a cohesive unifying spirit. I have yet to claim the authenticity of my life. I failed to accept that what anyone else thinks of me would not stave off an inevitable death. I have not claimed a purpose for living. I have not found a basic truth that I can live and die supporting. I failed to exert the resolute will to become who I aspire to be. I rejected abstract concepts and failed to endorse the systematic reasoning of philosophical studies. I indulged in the type of obsessive excessive self-analysis, which leads to the brink of personal destruction through self-objectification and artificial triumphs. Echoing the words of Romanian philosopher and writer E.M. Cioran (1911-1995), ‘I’ve invented nothing; I’ve simply been the secretary of my sensations.”