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David Bulgarelli
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Once we have agreed that true love exists, we may consider its nature. It is not, as many misguided poets would have you believe, an event in and of itself; it is not something that happens, but something that simply is and always has been.
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“You underestimate your own power so you don't have to blame yourself for treating other people badly.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“You think everyone you like is special, she said. I'm just a normal person. When you get to like someone, you make them feel like they're different from everyone else. You're doing it with Nick, you did it with me once.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“Everyone’s always going through something, aren’t they? That’s life, basically. It’s just more and more things to go through.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
“If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. You have to turn into a dragon and stir up a whirlwind, tear the dark, brooding clouds asunder and soar up into the azure-blue sky.”
― Runaway Horses
― Runaway Horses
“Maybe niceness is the wrong metric, I said. Of course it's really about power, Bobbi agreed. But it's harder to work out who has the power, so instead we rely on 'niceness' as a kind of stand-in. I mean this is an issue in public discourse. We end up asking like, is Israel 'nicer' than Palestine.”
― Conversations with Friends
― Conversations with Friends
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