James Mattison
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“The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once (we soon feel ungrateful) or those who never allow us to kiss them (we soon forget them), but those who know how to carefully administer varied doses of hope and despair.”
― On Love
― On Love
“In reading, friendship is suddenly brought back to its original purity. There is no false amiability with books. If we spend the evening with these friends, it is because we genuinely want to.”
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
― How Proust Can Change Your Life
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”
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“Certainly travelers had returned from the heart and tried to represent what they had seen, but love was in the end like a species of rare colored butterfly, often sighted, but rarely conclusively identified.”
― On Love
― On Love
“Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.”
― The Course of Love
― The Course of Love
2020 book challenge by Agii
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James’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Business, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction, History, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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