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“There is the possibility, even the likelihood, of self-approving and extravagantly error-prone behavior on the part of those closely associated with money.”
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
― A Short History of Financial Euphoria
“You took your own insecurity and put it on her. That weakens her. And it weakens you. You treat a young woman like that with respect. If nothing else it'll teach you about yourself. teach you who you want to be whenever you're ready to be that person.”
― Prodigal Son
― Prodigal Son
“The hardest part of trying to become an adult is realizing that your suffering doesn't entitle you to anything.”
― Prodigal Son
― Prodigal Son
“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Maybe that's what intimacy was... A sense of dread at what could go wrong, a stifling of fear, a baring of the vulnerable self to the judgement of someone else. The jagged edge of one soul meeting another, tearing and rending, a connection and a diminishment both. All that imperfection, all that friction - it wore down the tread, expanding rather than preserving.”
― Prodigal Son
― Prodigal Son
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