“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
“One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.”
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“Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.”
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“It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.”
― The Architecture of Happiness
― The Architecture of Happiness
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