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“By forty, everyone has the face they deserve,’ wrote George Orwell,”
― Essays In Love
― Essays In Love
“As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.”
― Essays In Love
― Essays In Love
“It seemed impossible, from within love at least, that this could have been anything but fate. It would have taken a steady mind to contemplate without superstition the enormous probability of a meeting that had turned out to alter our lives. Someone at (30,000 feet) must have been pulling strings in the sky.”
― On Love
― On Love
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in sound, language or image. Artists and philosophers not only show us what we have felt, they present our experiences more poignantly and intelligently than we have been able; they give shape to aspects of our lives that we recognise as our own, yet could never have understood so clearly on our own. They explain our condition to us, and thereby help us to be less lonely with, and confused by it.”
― The Consolations of Philosophy
― The Consolations of Philosophy
“Nobody deserves anything,” Evelyn says. “It's simply a matter of who's willing to go and take it for themselves. And you, Monique, are a person who has proven to be willing to go out there and take what you want. So be honest about that. No one is just a victim or a victor. Everyone is somewhere in between. People who go around casting themselves as one or the other are not only kidding themselves, but they're also painfully unoriginal.”
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
― The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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