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“i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone”
― The Scorch Trials
― The Scorch Trials

“I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars

“Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.”
― Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

“Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it鈥檚 as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny.”
― I Was Here
― I Was Here

“An insipid voice message or an incongruent emergence from the 鈥渙ther鈥� world may disrupt our whole thinking system. If we are not able to deal with the fragmentation of our self and assess the deconstruction of our identity, a corny incident could easily capsize our being. A misinterpretation of facts and expectations may perturb our awareness and unsettle our perception. When 鈥淚鈥� and 鈥渕e鈥� don鈥檛 get along very well, the road to oneness may be very often bumpy. (鈥淎lors, tout a bascul茅鈥�)”
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“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: 鈥業鈥�, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the 鈥淚鈥� entails what I want; the 鈥渕e鈥� what others expect of me and the 鈥渙thers鈥� what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", 鈥渟urroundings鈥� and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (鈥淚 am on my own side, but I can listen 鈥� )”
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“Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming into contact, or, on the contrary, hostile to each other, mutually exclusive and incompatible. Each minute, each moment, man is saying or thinking, "i". And each time his i is different. just now it was a thought, now it is a desire, now a sensation, now another thought, and so on, endlessly. Man is a plurality. Man's name is legion.”
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“The outsider is not sure who he is. He has found an 鈥淚鈥�, but it is not his true 鈥淚鈥�.鈥� His main business is to find his way back to himself.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent”
― I Am Number Four
― I Am Number Four

“賱兀賳賳賷 亘丿丕鬲 兀賰乇賴 丕賱噩賲賷毓 亘丕賱鬲爻丕賵賷, 卮賷毓丞 賵爻賳丞. 賵兀賳 賰賱 賴匕賴 丕賱賲賮乇丿丕鬲 鬲禺賳賯賳賷 賰兀賳賴丕 賲爻丕賲賷乇 氐丿卅丞 賮賷 乇卅鬲賾賷...賱賵兀賳 亘廿賲賰丕賳賷 兀賳兀賲丨賵賴丕 賰賱賴丕 兀賵 兀賮禺禺 丕賱賱睾丞 賵兀賮噩乇賴丕 賰賷 賷爻鬲丨賷賱 丕賱廿爻鬲禺丿丕賲 賴匕賴 丕賱賲賮乇丿丕鬲.”
― 賵丨丿賴丕 卮噩乇丞 丕賱乇賲丕賳
― 賵丨丿賴丕 卮噩乇丞 丕賱乇賲丕賳

“If you know that I am genius
Then know that you made me genius
Everyone don't accept me as genius
Because they aren't genius to belief me as genius”
― Blended Words
Then know that you made me genius
Everyone don't accept me as genius
Because they aren't genius to belief me as genius”
― Blended Words

“Marriage is the union of two 'I's to form a 'V'. Both 'I's have to tilt equally to make a good 'V'. 'I's standing tall can never make a 'V'.”
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“How can man know himself? It is a dark, mysterious business: if a hare has seven skins, a man may skin himself seventy times seven times without being able to say, 鈥淣ow that is truly you; that is no longer your outside.鈥� It is also an agonizing, hazardous undertaking thus to dig into oneself, to climb down toughly and directly into the tunnels of one鈥檚 being. How easy it is thereby to give oneself such injuries as no doctor can heal. Moreover, why should it even be necessary given that everything bears witness to our being 鈥� our friendships and animosities, our glances and handshakes, our memories and all that we forget, our books as well as our pens. For the most important inquiry, however, there is a method. Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 鈥淲hat have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?鈥� Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self. Compare these objects, see how they complement, enlarge, outdo, transfigure one another; how they form a ladder on whose steps you have been climbing up to yourself so far; for your true self does not lie buried deep within you, but rather rises immeasurably high above you, or at least above what you commonly take to be your I.”
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“I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.”
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains

“I consider a tree.
I can look on it as a picture: stiff column in a shock of light, or splash of green shot with the delicate blue and silver of the background.
I can perceive it as movement: flowing veins on clinging, pressing pith, suck of the roots, breathing of the leaves, ceaseless commerce with earth and air鈥攁nd the obscure growth itself.
I can classify it in a species and study it as a type in its structure and mode of life.
I can subdue its actual presence and form so sternly that I recognise it only as an expression of law 鈥� of the laws in accordance with which a constant opposition of forces is continually adjusted, or of those in accordance with which the component substances mingle and separate.
I can dissipate it and perpetuate it in number, in pure numerical relation.
In all this the tree remains my object, occupies space and time, and has its nature and constitution.
It can, however, also come about, if I have both will and grace, that in considering the tree I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is now no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.
To effect this it is not necessary for me to give up any of the ways in which I consider the tree. There is nothing from which I would have to turn my eyes away in order to see, and no knowledge that I would have to forget. Rather is everything, picture and movement, species and type, law and number, indivisibly united in this event.
Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure, its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, are all present in a single whole.
The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it 鈥� only in a different way.
Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual.”
― I and Thou
I can look on it as a picture: stiff column in a shock of light, or splash of green shot with the delicate blue and silver of the background.
I can perceive it as movement: flowing veins on clinging, pressing pith, suck of the roots, breathing of the leaves, ceaseless commerce with earth and air鈥攁nd the obscure growth itself.
I can classify it in a species and study it as a type in its structure and mode of life.
I can subdue its actual presence and form so sternly that I recognise it only as an expression of law 鈥� of the laws in accordance with which a constant opposition of forces is continually adjusted, or of those in accordance with which the component substances mingle and separate.
I can dissipate it and perpetuate it in number, in pure numerical relation.
In all this the tree remains my object, occupies space and time, and has its nature and constitution.
It can, however, also come about, if I have both will and grace, that in considering the tree I become bound up in relation to it. The tree is now no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.
To effect this it is not necessary for me to give up any of the ways in which I consider the tree. There is nothing from which I would have to turn my eyes away in order to see, and no knowledge that I would have to forget. Rather is everything, picture and movement, species and type, law and number, indivisibly united in this event.
Everything belonging to the tree is in this: its form and structure, its colours and chemical composition, its intercourse with the elements and with the stars, are all present in a single whole.
The tree is no impression, no play of my imagination, no value depending on my mood; but it is bodied over against me and has to do with me, as I with it 鈥� only in a different way.
Let no attempt be made to sap the strength from the meaning of the relation: relation is mutual.”
― I and Thou

“This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this.”
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“The man was staring directly at him now, a curious expression on his face, half smiling, half quizzical. Instantly Eager had a sense of certainty far deeper than anything he had experienced so far. "I have it too!" he exclaimed. "I am a part of this Earth, aren't I? Just like the birds and the trees and the people - I am."
"Om." said his companion.
Unseen by them, a blossom fell.”
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"Om." said his companion.
Unseen by them, a blossom fell.”
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“Here's how man thinks: "If no one鈥檚 done it, why should I try? It鈥檚 a waste of time; but if he鈥檚 done it, I can do it better.”
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“The true Sufi cannot utter any prayer beginning with the word 'I,' for example: 'I want to know Thee better.' For to do this presupposes that there are two beings: the Sufi and Allah. This is the greatest sin. Iblis cried, 'Ana khayrun minhu! (I am better than he is!') The personal pronoun 'I' is the classic Sufi symbol for pride in its extreme form.”
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
― The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis

“Man's three 'inner facts', the things he believed in most firmly鈥攖he will, the mind, the I鈥攚ere projected out of himself: he derived the concept of Being from the concept of the I, and posited the existence of 'things' after his own image, after his concept of the I as cause. No wonder if, later on, he only ever rediscovered in things what he had put in them.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
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