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“This hatred overtook me, and I couldn't help myself. I wanted so much to forget the past, but it wouldn't go away, it hung around like an open wound that refused to scar over, an open window that no amount of muscle could shut.”

-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“What do you do with pain so bad it has no redeeming value? It cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within. That is the pain I'm feeling now. It's so bad, it's useless. The only lesson I will ever derive from this pain is how bad pain can be.”

-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time.”

-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.”

-Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel

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“Life is like a box of chocolates. It's a cheap thoughtless perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you ever get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with unidentifiable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup or an english toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. So you end up with nothing but broken bits with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat that, all you have left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappings.”

-The X-Files [television show]

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“'I love you,' she whispered.
'You hurt me,' I said.
'Same thing,' she retorted.
We've hardly been separated since.”

-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky

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“There lies the beauty: I'm done with thinking. All it ever did was make me cry.”

-The Story of Junk, Linda Yablonsky

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“You are more in love with the desire, than the desired.”

-Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession, Irvin Yalom

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“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”

-Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others, William Butler Yeats

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“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.”

-The Second Coming, William Butler Years

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“Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up
Knew that we'd halved a soul
And fell the one in t'other's arms
That we might make it whole.”

-The Tower, William Butler Years

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“Our whole world is nothing but a world of grief and misery, and its inhabitants are nothing but grieving and miserable people. The living beings on this earth are all destined for slaughter. The azure heaven and the round earth are no more than a great slaughter-yard, a great prison.”

-K'ang Yu-Wei

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“At times, things still seem so peripheral around me; when I turn to look at something, it jerks out of my line of sight. I can't always bring the world into focus. I know life is going on: Cars are being washed, people are going to work, houses are being built, other babies are being born, but it isn't always possible to reconcile myself to the reality of these happening. It's the strangest sensation of disconnection, as if I'm existing on a slightly separate plane from the rest of the world.”

-The Kind of Love that Saves You, Amy Yurk

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“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”

-Yves St. Laurent

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“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

-Shadow Of The Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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“There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.”

-A Soviet Heretic, Zamyatin

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“I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existence. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.”

-Madwand, Robert Zelzany

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“She soon says, 'You're my best friend, Ed.'
'I know.'
You can kill a man with those words.
No gun.
No bullets.
Just words and a girl.”

-I Am The Messenger, Markus Zusak

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