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"Ok. Chapter 1 left me frustrated. I feel like it makes no sense. Someone assure me that this book will get better?" — Mar 10, 2025 02:15PM
"Ok. Chapter 1 left me frustrated. I feel like it makes no sense. Someone assure me that this book will get better?" — Mar 10, 2025 02:15PM
“But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self, the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen by someone and the equal privilege of being granted the sight of the essence of another, to have walked with them and to have believed in them, and sometimes just to have accompanied them for however brief a span, on a journey impossible to accomplish alone.”
― Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
― Consolations - Revised edition: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words
“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”
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“She loved the dry, crackling heat, the way the sky at sunset looked like a sheet of fire, and the overwhelming emptiness and severity of all that open land that had once been a huge ocean bed.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?”
― Midnight’s Children
― Midnight’s Children
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