Toritseju Oyor
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“Sensation tell us a thing is.
Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
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Thinking tell us what it is this thing is.
Feeling tells us what this thing is to us.”
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“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
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“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther

“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
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“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
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