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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“The world is available to us, but that may be the problem.”
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
― Modern Romance: An Investigation
“I was so used to thinking about happiness as deferred satisfaction that I had neglected to think about the purpose and import of what happens now. I had failed to engage with the question of happiness as a present reality and, in the process, had just gotten really busy.”
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
― Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly
“There's not a dating service on this planet that can do what the human brain can do in terms of finding the right person.”
― Modern Romance
― Modern Romance
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