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Heartsick by Jessie Stephens

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Relationships are not some test we fail or pass. They have a little to do with luck. A lot to do with timing. There are few things we control less than how someone else feels about us.

“It was culture as class performance, literature fetishised for its ability to take educated people on false emotional journeys, so that they might afterwards feel superior to the uneducated people whose emotional journeys they liked to read about.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

tags: art, culture, intellectual-snobbery, literature, snobbery

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“I detest guilt as a motivating factor for anything, and as for the promises made between lovers, well, they are a blueprint for calamity, a writ of divorce rendered point by point.”
― Evan Fallenberg, The Parting Gift

tags: calamity, divorce, guilt, lovers, motivating, promises

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“Not for the first time Marianne thinks cruelty does not only hurt the victim, but the perpetrator also, and maybe more deeply and more permanently.”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

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“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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