“Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.”
― This Book is Not for Sale
― This Book is Not for Sale
“There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.”
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“People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one's audience with one's mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize. Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what's selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.”
― Love Among the Chickens
― Love Among the Chickens
“Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Listen to it carefully.”
― Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
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