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“There may be nothing more deep-rooted and stubborn than the human tendency to look and think of things with themselves at the center.”

Book:How Do You Live?

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“Humans are structureless. They live in conflict with themselves and each other. Their great genius is rationalization: lying into mirrors until they bully and seduce themselves into things they would never otherwise do. They are creatures of self-delusion, regret, and desire. That is their way, and for a time we harnessed it as we did everything.”

Humor Human Rationalization

Book:The Mercy of Gods

Source: The Mercy of Gods

“I don't want to be a person who always keeps everything safe. Life is meant to be lived. Books end — they have a trajectory and then a conclusion — but people go on. Messy, predictable, messing-up people. We fall down and get up with no guarantee we won't fall down all over again/ Nothing is tidy, and there are no neat bows. Each of us is a hundred different versions of ourselves with different people, and they all converge into a single flawed human.”

Romance Human Unlikely Story

Author:Ali Rosen

“Today I feel like all the doors have closed on me I just needed one more chance to get my life on track. And no matter how much I tried I couldn't get that chance again. Biggest lesson I have learnt is truly remarkable. God doesn't give you the same chances over and over.. sometimes you have to swim in the deep ocean. It's impossible but just maybe by a chance of a needle in a haystack I'll find my way out.”

Life Pain Human Paintin

Author:Kabashe Pillay

“We smile at each other at the same time as we hurt each other. We’re all inadequate, weak & ordinary beings, but because we’re capable of being kind, for a moment, no matter how fleeting, we can be extraordinary.”

Humanity Kindness Human Caring For Others

Book:Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

Source: Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

“It does take an exceptional mind and a still more exceptional integrity to remain untouched by the brain-destroying influences of the world doctrines, the accumulated evil of centuries-- to remain _human_, since the human is the rational”

Integrity Human

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Human hair, doing what human hair does: growing on my head.”

Growing Hair Human Head Eleanor Oliphant Gail Honeyman

Book:Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Source: Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“You didn’t have to look very hard to be disappointed by human beings. We were not all bad, just enough of us, although the rest had to work very hard to make up for that minority.”

Human

Book:The Instruments of Darkness

Source: The Instruments of Darkness

“If you want to be a writer, you gotta stand in the middle of the traffic to see how fast the train goes. The human comedy has never been richer.”

Comedy Human Writer Traffic

Author:Thomas Wolfe

“Some men may be unready for the coming of the genie who grants three wishes.”

God Solomon Genie Three Wishes

Book:Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Source: Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

“It is the snow,' Detta said simply. 'I am only human in the snow. When it melts away, so too do I, for then I am cursed to be a swan.”

Human Snow Cursed Fairytale M A Kuzniar Upon A Frosted Star Detta Odette Lakely Swan Lake

Book:Upon a Frosted Star

Source: Upon a Frosted Star

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