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I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it —our life— hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.

— Marcel Proust

I like people with depth, I like people with emotion, I like people with a strong mind, an interesting mind, a twisted mind, and also someone that can make me smile.

— Abbey Lee Kershaw

(Source: generic-homosapiens)

There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness. Had we been placed on earth by a malign creator for the exclusive purpose of suffering, we would have good reason to congratulate ourselves on our enthusiastic response to the task. Reasons to be inconsolable abound: the frailty of our bodies, the fickleness of love, the insincerities of social life, the compromises of friendship, the deadening effects of habit. In the face of such persistent ills, we might naturally expect that no event would be awaited with greater anticipation than the moment of our own extinction.

— Alain de Botton, How Proust Can Change Your Life

There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

(Source: astrolily)