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Book cover for The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
if you are not living your life for yourself, then who is going to live it for you? You are living only your own life. When it comes to who you are living it for, of course it’s you. And then, if you are not living your life for yourself, ...more
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Anna Burns
“That relative, that temporal plane -- where sensitivities vary, where no one has the same personal history even if they have the same communal history, where something which is a trigger for one person passes off unnoticed by another person -- definitely was the place where the raw living of life and the imperfect mental response to that raw living took place.”
Anna Burns, Milkman

Orhan Pamuk
“Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.”
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk
“ALIF: Painting brings to life what the mind sees, as a feast for the eyes.
LAM: What the eye sees in the world enters the painting to the degree that it serves the mind.
MIM: Consequently, beauty is the eye discovering in our own world what the mind already knows.”
Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

Gregory David Roberts
“If fate doesn’t make you laugh, Karla said, in one of my first conversations with her, then you just don’t get the joke.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

Amor Towles
“It is a sad but unavoidable fact of life," he began, "that as we age our social circles grow smaller. Whether from increased habit or diminished vigor, we suddenly find ourselves in the company of just a few familiar faces.”
Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

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