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“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.”
― Mrs. Dalloway
― Mrs. Dalloway
“Sexy means loving someone you do not know.”
― Interpreter of Maladies
― Interpreter of Maladies
“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”
― The Lowland
― The Lowland
“Because in the end to learn a language, to feel connected to it, you have to have a dialogue, however childlike, however imperfect.”
― In Other Words: A Memoir
― In Other Words: A Memoir
“The beauty of self-compassion is that instead of replacing negative feelings with positive ones, new positive emotions are generated by embracing the negative ones. The positive emotions of care and connectedness are felt alongside our painful feelings. When we have compassion for ourselves, sunshine and shadow are both experienced simultaneously. This is important—ensuring that the fuel of resistance isn’t added to the fire of negativity. It also allows us to celebrate the entire range of human experience, so that we can become whole. As Marcel Proust said, “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
― Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
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