One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ― Lewis Carroll

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sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love

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That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth. ― Tim O'Brien

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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls. ― Khaled Hosseini

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I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. ― Walter Tevis

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I know what good morals are, but you're supposed to disregard good morals when you're living in a crazy, bad world. If you're in hell, how can you live like an angel? You're surrounded by devils,trying to be an angel? That's like suicide.

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After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. ― Robert Frost

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When I was 8 years old, I became depressed. I kept asking why I was born this way [without arms and legs]. I also worried about my future. At the age of 10, I tried to commit suicide because I felt like giving up. But when I imagined my loving parents crying at my grave, I decided to stay.

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He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost. ― Osamu Dazai

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