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“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”
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“We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.”
― On Love
― On Love
“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
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“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.”
― Down and Out in Paris and London
― Down and Out in Paris and London
“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
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George’s 2025 Year in Books
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