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This explains the fact that we generally find pleasure to be not nearly so pleasant as we expected, and pain very much more painful.
“Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways we're connected. I sometimes think everything comes out even in the end, but an end that arches beyond the horizon, beyond our capacity to perceive or measure, and that in many cases those who trespass against you do so out of a misery that means the punishment preceded and even precipitated the crime. Maybe that's acceptance.”
― The Faraway Nearby
― The Faraway Nearby
“Reading is also traveling, with the eyes along the length of an idea, which can be folded up into the compressed space of a book and unfolded within your imagination and your understanding.”
― The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
― The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or decline from it. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
“Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.”
― Men Explain Things to Me
― Men Explain Things to Me
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