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I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
― On Beauty
― On Beauty
“We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be.”
― On Balance
― On Balance
“Yes, I have been a victim of a sexual assault. Well, probably several really. Funny how we were conditioned to accept these situations as unpleasant instead of outrageous.”
― The Night Swim
― The Night Swim
“You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
“Our children will be born of our actions. Our accidents will become their destinies. Oh, the actions will remain. It is a simple matter of what you will do when the chips are down, my friend. When the fat lady is singing. When the walls are falling in, and the sky is dark, and the ground is rumbling. In that moment our actions will define us. And it makes no difference whether you are being watched by Allah, Jesus, Buddah, or whether you are not. On cold days a man can see his breath, on a hot day he can't. On both occasions, the man breathes.”
― White Teeth
― White Teeth
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