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There’s an opposite to deja vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.
Chuck Palahniuk

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I began to draw an invisible boundary between myself and other people. No matter who I was dealing with. I maintained a set distance, carefully monitoring the person’s attitude so that they wouldn’t get any closer. I didn’t easily swallow what other people told me. My only passions were books and music.
Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami

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Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.
John Greenleaf Whittier, Maud Muller 

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[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two thousand of them per day. In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours — one-third of our lives on earth — spinning fantasies.
The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories

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I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.
Henry Rollins

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Someday you’ll find the right person, and you’ll learn to have a lot more confidence in yourself. That’s what I think. So don’t settle for anything less. In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.
Haruki Murakami

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It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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يضيع جمال الحياة عندما تنظر بعينيك فقط

and the beauty of life is lost when you only look with your eyes. 

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In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.
Don Draper

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I am nothing but words,
      just a shape
              of dreams or night.
Euripides

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There are essentially two things that will make you wise — the books you read and the people you meet.
Jack Canfield 

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Ask yourself if what you’re doing today is getting you closer to where you want to be tomorrow.
Unknown

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Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.
Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)

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