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This is my favorite book I've ever read. I'm already mourning the fact that I'll never get to read it for the first time again.
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That Lily Bart should object to being bantered about her suitors, or even about her means of attracting them, was so new to Selden that he had a momentary flash of surprise, which lit up a number of possibilities; but she rose gallantly to
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“Each of us must find a way to love the world. You have found yours.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty.”
― Swing Time
― Swing Time
“Whatever anyone tells you about how technology and social media have made us disconnected from reality is probably right, but I think you can boil all these kinds of arguments down to the fact that people are no longer chill. They are goal-oriented. They are aware of all the things they could or believe they should have. They are aware of all the things that could go wrong. This awareness makes a lot of things—dating, finding a job, dating a person you meet at your job, planning a trip for the president of the United States—much harder.”
― Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
― Who Thought This Was a Good Idea?
“I think every pain in this world wants to be witnessed.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
“Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.”
― The Book of Longings
― The Book of Longings
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