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Wanting positive experience is a negative experience; accepting negative experience is a positive experience.
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
― Letters of Ted Hughes
― Letters of Ted Hughes
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“It terrifies me, the fragility of these moments in our lives.”
― Any Human Heart
― Any Human Heart
“It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.”
― Diary
― Diary
“You will manage to keep a woman in love with you, only for as long as you can keep her in love with the person she becomes when she is with you.”
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Mai’s 2025 Year in Books
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