→ Oct 2017 "When you are young, there are many things which appear dull and lifeless. But as you get older, you will find these are the very things that are most important to you." — Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World (via quotespile)

→ Sep 2017 "The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone." — James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket (via quotespile)

→ Aug 2017 "That’s why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things." — Don DeLillo, White Noise (via quotespile)

→ May 2017 "A person is a fluid process, not a fixed and static entity; a flowing river of change, not a block of solid material; a continually changing constellation of potentialities, not a fixed quantity of traits." — Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person
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