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Too much self-sufficiency was sort of mean to the people who loved you, Kit thought. You robbed them of how good it feels to give, of their sense of value.
“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence
“He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful. It was this knowledge that prevented the Don from losing the humility all his friends admired in him.”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
“One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event.”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!”
― The Godfather
― The Godfather
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