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“if you want to enjoy the rewards of being loved, you also have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
― I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“He found himself trembling; as awkwardly as a boy he went around the coffee table & sat beside her. Tentatively, clumsily, their hands went out to each other; they clasped each other in an awkward, strained embrace; and for a long time, they sat together without moving, as if any movement might let escape from them the strange & terrible thing that they held between them in a single grasp.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“I wanted no grand mission, no 'causes,' just a life - a quiet, perhaps a frivolous life - of my own.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“There was consolation: The people you loved, they were always there with you, she had learned. Sometimes, she could be in front of a train kiosk or the window of a bookstore, and she could feel Noa's small hand when he was a boy, and she would close her eyes and think of his sweet grassy smell and remember that he had always tried his best. At those moments, it was good to be alone to hold on to him.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
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