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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

It seems that you have spent all your life saying things that you aren’t really thinking. This is one of your barriers.’ ‘Barriers?’ ‘Yes. You have a lot of them. They stop you from seeing the truth.’ ‘About what?’ ‘About yourself.

She had untapped things inside her.

undoing regrets was really a way of making wishes come true.

‘But you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life,’ he said, wisely. ‘You’re quoting Camus.’

Donna grew up with her parents arguing almost continually, and had consequently believed marriage was something that was not only inevitable, but also inevitably miserable.

They’d ended up talking for a very long time about all sorts of things, which he seemed to sense she’d been in need of.

The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

she shut the door and washed her hands and stared at the water spiral down the plughole the wrong way.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive we always contain a future of multifarious possibility. So let’s be kind to the people in our own existence. Let’s occasionally look up from the spot in which we are because