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“It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern.”
― Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic

tags: concern, desire, relationships

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“Everything with me is either worship and passion or pity and understanding. I hate rarely, though when I hate, I hate murderously. But I am more preoccupied with loving.”
― Ana茂s Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana茂s Nin, 1931-1932

tags: hate, loving

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“I was trapped so terribly inside my own head that I was a prisoner to my own thoughts. The”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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“I gave him the one thing June cannot give him: honesty. I am so ready to admit what a supremely developed ego would not admit: that June is a terrifying and inspiring character who makes every other woman insipid, that I would live her life except for my compassion and my conscience, that she may destroy Henry the man, but Henry the writer is more enriched by ordeals than by peace.”
― Ana茂s Nin, Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Ana茂s Nin, 1931-1932

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“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything can be done better and again.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

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