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What constitutes the freedom, the soul of an individual life, is its uniqueness. The reflection of the universe in someone's consciousness is the foundation of his or her power, but life only becomes happiness, is only endowed with freedom and meaning when someone exists as a whole world that has never been repeated in all eternity. Only then can they experience the joy of freedom and kindness, finding in others what they have already found in themselves.
— Vassily Grossman

1w ago

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. We talk of deviations from human form, but the truly repulsive is the face that has no character, that is habitual.

1w ago

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

4mo ago

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is an affront.

6mo ago

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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

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