Be yourself. Don't worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they're probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals, and prevents you from the self-righteousness that sees morality in fixed formulas about good and evil. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I won't tell you that the world matters nothing, or the world's voice, or the voice of society. They matter a good deal. They matter far too much. But there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely—or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands. You have that moment now. Choose! Jun 16, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>