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Objective knowledge doesn’t come into it. What matters instead is intuition: a spontaneous feeling that seems all the more accurate and worthy of respect because it bypasses the normal processes of reason.
“And when people stop focusing on their dreams they become lost in the maze of their minds, wandering around in endlessly repeating circles. Then the colours of life start to dull, and excitement starts to die. Until you’re trapped in a prison of your own making, looking out at life instead of living it.”
― Men, Money, and Chocolate
― Men, Money, and Chocolate
“Even having identified Lust as a ‘defect’, a negative and problematic trait, we don’t automatically discard it. ‘Lust is natural, I’m entitled to lust, if she had sex more I wouldn’t look at porn’, all these justifications are obstacles to change. In justifying our misery we recommit to it.”
― Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions
― Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions
“Those of us who have been deceived are made to feel stupid and embarrassed, although we have done nothing but have faith in someone who professed love.”
― The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal
― The Bigamist: The True Story of a Husband's Ultimate Betrayal
“The truth is, I would have wanted any mother of any sort, as long as she wanted me back. I would have loved her just for loving me in return.”
― Letters to Zell
― Letters to Zell
“She’s long ago given up wishing that she had a mother who felt things less keenly, who was able to contain her emotions, at least in front of the person who was suffering first-hand. Ever since she was a little girl, Viola had experienced everything twice: when it happened and then when she’d told her mother what happened. The second time was always worse because her mother’s reaction would always reignite Viola’s own pain and then she’d have the extra pain of her mother to contend with too.”
― The Patron Saint of Lost Souls: The bewitching novel of getting your heart's desire
― The Patron Saint of Lost Souls: The bewitching novel of getting your heart's desire
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