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“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”
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“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”
― On Love
― On Love
“It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.”
― On Love
― On Love
“We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.”
― On Love
― On Love
Melissa’s 2025 Year in Books
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Biography, Book Club, Chick-lit, Children's, Ebooks, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Romance, Science, Self help, and Travel
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