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After a certain age, we are all walking around this world in bodies made of secrets and shame and sorrow and old, unhealed injuries. Our hearts grow sore and misshapen around all this pain—yet somehow, still, we carry on.
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“De trădat îți poți trăda părinții, soțul, dragostea, țara, dar ce-ți mai rămâne de trădat atunci când nu mai ai nici părinți, nici soț, nici dragoste, nici țară?”
― Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei
― Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei
“While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.”
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“Sometimes it's not self-evident whether a remark is truly meant to be hurtful or meant in the spirit of friendly teasing (or ambiguous or both at once). Between women and men, teasing is risky because playful insults are a common way of showing affection among boys and men but less so for most women—at least most American women. My husband tells me that one of the first things he learned about me was that he had to curb his impulse to tease me because I would be hurt rather than touched.”
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
― You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
“The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.”
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“Build a house, and your investment returns value. Buy a couch, and the minute you take it out of the furniture store, it loses value. That's why I always say a house, you invest in; furniture, you spend money on.”
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
― Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
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