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The speculation took on a tone both lurid and compulsory—to have a boss is so commonplace that one rarely remarks on its strangeness, yet its structure compels a cult of personality around even the most quotidian of managers.
“We are so rarely left alone to love what we want to love, I say. Happiness comes from accepting the world the way it is. I've worked against this notion my whole life.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“Routine lures you, it makes you feel your own identity. Though I often think the opposite. That in repetition, you can lose sight of yourself.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“In order to forget one life, you need to live at least one other life. The young can withstand the shock of love because another life is still possible. It is only the old who die of heartbreak.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“We grant men a right to solitude, why can't we do the same for women? I exist more complete in it.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
“I feel joy and sorrow at once. Thinking for the first time how a work of art contains the unknown thoughts of the artist, and how everyone looking at this world will never know what was in him when this was made. Even me.”
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
― The Dictionary of Animal Languages
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