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And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Good is not always good. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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Senses empower limitations, senses expand vision within borders, senses promote understanding through pleasure. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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A star needs a star. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary. ↗

— Wendy Wasserstein

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She frowned. “I did nothing to arouse you.” He clenched his jaw, his stare growing more aggressive. “You breathed. ↗

— Shayla Black

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…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning speed it spread and made captives of the people all around him—in that moment his whole disgust for humankind rose up again within him and completely soured his triumph, so that he felt not only no joy, but not even the least bit of satisfaction. What he had always longed for—that other people should love him—became at the moment of his achievement unbearable, because he did not love them himself, he hated them. And suddenly he knew that he had never found gratification in love, but always only in hatred—in hating and in being hated. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

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