“People’s true feelings are not in plain sight. The other person might not be thinking anything, but there is a tendency to just assume what the other is feeling without reaching out and asking.”
― Before Your Memory Fades
― Before Your Memory Fades
“Inevitably, with memory comes pain.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Perhaps you never have time when you are alone? You only acquire it by watching it go by in others".”
― I Who Have Never Known Men
― I Who Have Never Known Men
“Something I strongly believe is that we mustn't allow the death of a person to be the cause of unhappiness. The reason for that is simple: if we let everyone who dies be a cause for unhappiness, that would mean people are being born to be unhappy. But the opposite in fact is true. People are always born for the sake of happiness.”
― Before Your Memory Fades
― Before Your Memory Fades
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