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Winter

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Winter’s Quotes

“Treating an identity as an illness invites real illness to make a braver stand.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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“Those who believe their suffering has been valuable love more readily than those who see no meaning in their pain.
Suffering does not necessarily imply love, but love implies suffering”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

tags: love, suffering

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“Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.”
― andrew solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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“There is no contradiction between loving someone and feeling burdened by that person; indeed, love tends to magnify the burden.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

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“Perhaps the immutable error of parenthood is that we give our children what we wanted, whether they want it or not. We heal our wounds with the love we wish we’d received, but are often blind to the wounds we inflict.”
― Andrew Solomon, Far From The Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

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