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“Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.”
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“Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.”
― On Love
― On Love
“Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.”
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“In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water, the need for love hallucinates a prince or princess. The oasis complex is never a complete delusion: the man in the desert does see something on the horizon. It is just that the palms have withered, the well is dry, and the place is infected with locusts.”
― On Love
― On Love
“Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should never strive to overcome any of our anxieties or fulfil any of our desires, but rather to suggest that we should perhaps build into our strivings an awareness of the way our goals promise us a respite and a resolution that they cannot, by definition, deliver.”
― Status Anxiety
― Status Anxiety
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