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“I’ve discovered that there are two ways of losing your belief: some people lose God when they find themselves; some people lose God when they lose themselves.”
― The Discomfort of Evening
― The Discomfort of Evening
“Men do things. We can't help it. That's all there is to it. As you will discover in time, the primary choice every man has to make is whether he wants to be himself or if he wants peace.”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one’s being as laughing easily or having red hair.”
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
― The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
“I cannot do this anymore. I cannot pull myself together again and spend the next fifteen hours of wakefulness fending off the fact of my own misery.”
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
― What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal
“What a moron I was to think you were sweet and innocent, when it turns out you were actually college-educated the whole time!”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman
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