"We are all the same in that we all want to be different."

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Source : Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

Jessica Zafra

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“There was nothing in this world that was not a con, suddenly I understood this. Nothing really mattered, and nothing could be lost.”
“I love romantic comedies. I like to watch them and I like to be in them. It's something that's increasingly difficult to find that spark of originality that makes if different than the ones that come before.”
“Everyone has a price.”
“Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.”
“The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.”

Source : "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.
“Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles.”

Source : Yukio Mishima (1990). “Spring Snow”, Vintage
“Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances.”
“So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem.”

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