

“But simplicity is really an achievement – it follows from hard-won clarity about what matters.”
― Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
― Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today

“I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded—and how pitiful that was.”
― The Sense of an Ending
― The Sense of an Ending

“Two people should see a relationship as a constant opportunity to improve and be improved. When lovers teach each other uncomfortable truths, they are not giving up on love. They are trying to do something very true to love: which is to make their partners more loveable.”
― Relationships
― Relationships

“We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.”
― Relationships
― Relationships

“One of the greatest privileges of being on one's own is the flattering illusion that one is, in truth, quite an easy person to live with.”
― Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: & Other Essays
― Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person: & Other Essays
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