Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
You can maintain power over people, as long as you give them something. Rob a man of everything, and that man will no longer be in your power.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.
The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time. - Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
Reality is the page. Life is the word.
What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
Love's pure free joy when it works, but when it goes bad you pay for the good hours at loan-shark prices.
Two people who are a little bit deluded in each other's favour. That's what love is, isn't it?
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.
Time is what stops history happening at once; time is the speed at which the past disappears.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, and come back in the same minute I left. I'm still looking for the door.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
It's true, reading too many novels makes you go blind.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
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