Jane

“haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.”
― Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook

“i. e. a society in which the largest number of persons are allowed to pursue the largest number of ends as freely as possible, in which these ends are themselves criticised as little as possible and the fervour with which such ends are held is not required to be bolstered up by some bogus rational or supernatural argument to prove the universal validity of the end.”46”
― Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

“I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.”
― Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist

“Every thing is what it is” is a famous phrase in British philosophy, and the essence of the empirical view.44*”
― Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War