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61 " More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Choke
62 " I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means. "
63 " Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy. "
64 " Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better. "
65 " Just keep asking yourself: What would Jesus not do? "
66 " It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed. "
67 " For the first time in longer than I can remember, I feel peaceful. Not happy. Not sad. Not anxious. Not horny. Just all the higher parts of my brain closing up shop. The cerebral cortex. The cerebellum. That's where my problem is. I'm now simplifying myself. Somewhere balanced in the perfect middle between happiness and sadness. Because sponges never have a bad day. "
68 " We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own. "
69 " Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. "
70 " At some point, your memories, your stories, your adventures, will be the only things you'll have left. "
71 " Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be. "
72 " Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer. "
73 " There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar. "
74 " Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it. "
75 " I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it. "
76 " If you're going to read this, don't bother. "
77 " Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose. "
78 " Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. "
79 " The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there. "
80 " That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love. "