“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
― Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”
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“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
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