

“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“One day, you鈥檙e 17 and you鈥檙e planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.”
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“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms
― All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“I don鈥檛 understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn鈥檛 it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― On the Heights of Despair
― On the Heights of Despair
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