You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?
("Veronika Decides to Die")
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I am talking to you, but the moment I am talking to you, the universe is being created and destroyed.
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