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“I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.”
― The Book of Disquiet
― The Book of Disquiet
“if Moses had seen the way my friend’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah: do not lie with a man”
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
― The Book of Tahkemoni: Jewish Tales from Medieval Spain
“Numbness and cynicism, I suspect, are more often the products of frustrated compassion than of evil intentions.”
― Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey With the Poor
― Not All of Us Are Saints: A Doctor's Journey With the Poor
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“You learn as much from failure as from success, Dad always says. Though no one admires you for it.”
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
― We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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