In Strict Confidence

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

—Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)

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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

—Aristotle

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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won’t stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won’t go?

—Danny DeVito

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Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

—Vladimir Nabokov

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If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

— William James

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In life man commits himself and draws his own portrait, outside of which there is nothing. No doubt this thought may seem harsh to someone who has not made a success of his life. But on the other hand, it helps people to understand that reality alone counts, and that dreams, expectations and hopes only serve to define a man as a broken dream, aborted hopes, and futile expectations.

—Jean-Paul Sartre (via nuuro)

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