

“Admit it. You aren鈥檛 like them. You鈥檙e not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the 鈥渘ormal people鈥 as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like 鈥淗ave a nice day鈥 and 鈥淲eather鈥檚 awful today, eh?鈥, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like 鈥淭ell me something that makes you cry鈥 or 鈥淲hat do you think deja vu is for?鈥. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others鈥”
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“All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end. The cause of some going to war, and of others avoiding it, is the same desire in both, attended with different views. The will never takes the least step but to this object. This is the motive of every action of every man, even of those who hang themselves.”
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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― 笔别苍蝉茅别蝉
― 笔别苍蝉茅别蝉

“I am like a prisoner who happens on enjoy an imaginary freedom in his dreams and who subsequently begins to suspect that he is asleep and, afraid of being awakened, conspires silently with his agreeable illusions.”
― Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
― Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings
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