“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”
― The Casual Vacancy
― The Casual Vacancy
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.”
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
― Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community
“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― The Secret of Staying in Love
― The Secret of Staying in Love
“[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
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