A Clockwork Existence

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If you expect nothing from somebody, you are never disappointed.

— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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For too long we have swept the problems of mental illness under the carpet…and hoped that they would go away.

— Richard J. Codey

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Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

— Sigmund Freud

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What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense?

— Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

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My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.

— John Green

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I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye

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I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

— Anaïs Nin

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Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.

— Homer, The Iliad

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but they learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo

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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

— Khaled Hosseini