I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.
Tags: psychology, philosophy, melancholy, loneliness, happiness

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Thank God for books and music and things I can think about.
Tags: music, books, book
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
Tags: life, fear, death
Intelligence and education that hasn't been tempered by human affection isn't worth a damn.
Tags: intelligence, flowers-for-algernon, education, affection
A short while ago I foolishly thought I could learn everything - all the knowledge in the world. Now I hope only to be able to know of its existence, and to understand one grain of it.
Tags: knowledge
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other - child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
Tags: death
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