Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Your entire sense of self-worth is predicated upon your belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants. ― Shaun David Hutchinson

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Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited. — Ava DuVernay

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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. ― Sun Tzu

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Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. ― Shannon L. Alder

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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. ― Glen Cook

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Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse.

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The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. ― C.S. Lewis

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Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got! ― Yann Martel

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