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Book cover for Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: On Relationships, Sex, Meditation, and Silence
The love you know is nothing but a biological urge; it depends on your chemistry and your hormones. It can be changed very easily—a small change in your chemistry and the love that you thought was the “ultimate truth” will simply disappear. ...more
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Tara Westover
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
Tara Westover, Educated

W. Somerset Maugham
“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Tara Westover
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“But sometimes I think we choose our illnesses, because they benefit us in some way.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“Guilt is the fear of one’s own wretchedness. It has nothing to do with other people.”
Tara Westover, Educated

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