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“And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss
and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
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and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
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“We live on the flat, on the level, and yet - and so - we aspire. Groundlings, we can sometimes reach as far as the gods. Some soar with art, others with religion; most with love. But when we soar, we can also crash. There are few soft landings. We may find ourselves bouncing across the ground with leg-fracting force, dragged towards some foreign railway line. Every love story is a potential grief story. If not at first, then later. If not for one, then for the other. Sometimes, for both.”
― Levels of Life
― Levels of Life
“I feel almost physically ill in the presence of boring people who consider themselves especially interesting and who blow their own trumpets.”
― A Man in Love
― A Man in Love
“And another thing. Don’t ever kid yourself about loving some one. It is just that most people are not lucky enough ever to have it. You never had it before and now you have it. What you have with Maria, whether it lasts just through today and a part of tomorrow, or whether it lasts for a long life is the most important thing that can happen to a human being. There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.”
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
― For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sofie’s 2025 Year in Books
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