“Just as the planet still circles round its Sun, yet at the same time rotates on its own axis, so the individual partakes in the development of humanity while making his own way through life.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Maybe love isn’t something that comes full circle. It just ebbs and flows, in and out, just like the people in our lives”
― It Ends with Us
― It Ends with Us
“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?”
― Daisy Jones & The Six
― Daisy Jones & The Six
“Three sources of suffering: the superior power of nature, the frailty of our bodies, and the inadequacy of the institutions that regulate people's relations with one another in the family, the state and society.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“...the world never turned out the way you wanted it to. It simply turned. And you hung on.”
― Still Life
― Still Life
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