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“Strange, isn't it? To have dedicated one's life to a certain venture, neglecting other aspects of one's life, only to have that venture, in the end, amount to nothing at all, the products of one's labors ultimately forgotten?”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“My great quandary was what coat to wear and which books to bring.”
― M Train
― M Train
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”
― M Train: A Memoir
― M Train: A Memoir
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