“Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”— Albert Camus, Notebooks
“Let yourself be softened.”— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819
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“Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a diferent college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.”— Anna Quindlen (via naturaekos)
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”— Maya Angelou
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