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My Husband's Wife

by Alice Feeney (Goodreads Author)

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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: literature, reading, solitude

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“I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age of Reason

tags: existentialism, life, regret

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“Why were the things that were closest so often the hardest to see?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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“He never knows what he wants. It changes completely from minute to minute, and he has no decisive inner voice that says 'This is the real you, this is what you desire.' Ed is blurry, to even himself. His outlines are vague. This is fine except that you need to be solid for other people. To have relationships, to be trusted, you have to say, 'This is me, this is what I want' and act as if that were true at all times.”
― Oisín McKenna, Evenings and Weekends

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“Our massacres are only interrupted by commercial breaks. Judges legalize them. Correspondents kill us with passive voice. If we are lucky, diplomats say that our death concerns them, but they never mention the culprit, let alone condemn the culprit. Politicians, inert, inept, or complicit, fund our demise, then feign sympathy, if any. Academics stand idle. That is, until the dust settles, then they will write books about what should have been.”
― Mohammed El-Kurd, Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

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