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“You must learn in life to take things more lightly, my dear. The world is always changing. Learn how to allow for it.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“she was explaining to me that I had won nothing, that in the world there is nothing to win, that her life was full of varied and foolish adventures as much as mine, and that time simply slipped away without any meaning, and it was good just to see each other every so often to hear the mad sound of the brain of one echo in the mad sound of the brain of the other.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Everything goes. I am working very hard at not thinking about how everything goes.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays