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“9p.m. My flat. Feel very strange and empty. Is all very well thinking everything is going to be different when you come back but then it is all the same. Suppose I have to make it different. But what am I going to do with my life?
I know. Will eat some cheese.”
― Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
I know. Will eat some cheese.”
― Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
“Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. ”
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“Calling sex by its name thereafter [the 17th c.] became more difficult and more costly. As if in order to gain mastery of it in reality, it had first been necessary to subjugate it at the level of language, control its free circulation in speech, expunge it from the things that were said, and extinguish the words that rendered it too visibly present. ”
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“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it?
What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”
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What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don’t know where it will end.”
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