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“I am that quiet place, the centre of the maelstrom...The dangerous abyss, where few dare to tread...”

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“L’un des périls de l’âge adulte, c’est que ton esprit s’élargit bien au-delà de ce qui te concerne strictement. Il n’y a pas de cérémonie qui marque cette étape, pas d’avertissement. Ça t’arrive un jour, et brusquement, tu te rends compte qu’il se passe soixante-dix choses en même temps, et tu te recroquevilles au milieu d’un maelstrom fait d’amour, d’occasions manquées, de choix difficiles et des griffes tenaces du passé – sans compter qu’il faut, en plus, remettre de l’ordre dans le garage.”

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Book:La Vie ô combien ordinaire d'Hannah Green
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“I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breathe life into me. I'm always thinking, always feeling, but my thoughts lack all reason, my emotions all feeling. I'm falling through a trapdoor, through infinite space … in a directionless, empty fall. My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool. And I, myself, am the centre that exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it; I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because every circle has one.”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet
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“The human mind demonstrates the ability to adapt to stress and stabilize our mental health. When our self-construal no longer supports our continual survival, we must purge ourselves of selective narrow-mindedness. We must eradicate operable mental prejudices in order to become more inclusive and mentally balanced. It is only through deliberate thought that we can radically eliminate ingrained predispositions and reconfigure who we think we are. A reconfigured self-construal is an act of mental health stabilization. By altering who we think we are, we can accept environmental conditions that previously proved too harsh for our self-identity concept to accept. In order to achieve mental and emotional equilibrium, the mutable human mind adjusts our sympathetic sense of self-identity.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
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