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“Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be driven to destroy it.”
― Olivie Blake, The Atlas Complex

“A late-comer to school, I had uncritically accepted all its standards. I was a conformist: it never occurred to me that because I suffered there was something wrong with the system, or with the human heart.”
― L. P. Hartley, The Go- Between.

“What causes wars, what makes them drag on so interminably, but the fear of losing face?”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“It's so easy to fall into the assumption that anything someone else gains is something you lose. To think of success as some lavish party with only a limited number of invites. To convince yourself that if you could only make it to a certain point in the distance, you'll finally find a place to rest. To feel like there's always more than you can do. But I mean, look what's being done to us - to our self-esteem, to our pride, to our bodies. We're exhausted and on the verge of breaking down at any second and... somehow we're expected to just keep going.”
― Ann Liang, I Am Not Jessica Chen