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“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”

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Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol was a prominent 19th-century Russian dramatist and novelist. His works are known for their sharp satire and humor, which have had a profound impact on Russian literature. more

“..and I thought how liking a boy was just the same as believing you wanted to know a secret - everything was better when you were denied and could feel tormented by curiousity or loneliness. But the moment of something happening was treacherous. It was just so tiring to have to worry about whether your face was peeling, or to have to laugh at stories that weren’t funny.”

Knows Feels Believe Moments Stories Wanted Faces Secret Boys Worry Laughing Loneliness Happenings Your Face Denied Tire Treacherous Peeling Curiousity

Book:Prep: a novel

Source: Prep: a novel

“We're all of us equally naked before the jaws of pain.”

Pain Naked

Book:White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files

Source: White Night: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“The hearts of women are like those little pieces of furniture with secret hiding - places, full of drawers fitted into each other; you go a lot of trouble, break your nails, and in the bottom find some withered flower, a few grains of dust - or emptiness!”

Heart Littles Secret Break Pieces Trouble Flower Bottom Dust Emptiness Hiding Grain Nails Furniture Drawers Withered Hiding Place

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of it's own accord.”

Way Mind Desire Order Creation Wake Up Intention Chaos Improvement This Life Excellent Accord

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“And the more he was irritated by her basic personality, the more he was drawn to her by a harsh, bestial sensuality, illusions of a moment, which ended in hate.”

Moments Hate Personality Illusion Sensuality Harsh Irritated

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things.”

Highest Sincerity Faithfulness

Author:Confucius

“When you succeed in awakening the Kundalini, so that it starts to move out of its mere potentiality, you necessarily start a world which is totally different from our world. It is the world of eternity.”

World Different Moving Succeed Eternity Mere Awakening Our World Memories Dreams Reflections

Author:Carl Jung

“The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs, at least not if you want them to listen to you. You can’t say that my interests are special compared to yours any more than you can say that the particular spot that I am standing on is a unique part of the universe because I happen to be standing on it that very minute.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Happens Universe Interest Realizing Minutes Special Particular Unique Standing Privilege Spots

Author:Steven Pinker

“One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.”

Pain Opinion Taken Pride Proud Sticks Vanity

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“... please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish." "You most certainly were." "You are cruel, Evanna.”

Young Speak Please Foolish

Author:Darren Shan

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