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“I feel so frightened of being hurt – not of the suffering, which I know I can handle, but the indignity of suffering, the indignity of being open to it.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“And I think if I believed in God, I wouldn't want to prostrate myself before him and ask for forgiveness. I would just want to thank him every day, for everything.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“So of course in the midst of everything, the state of the world being what it is, humanity on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. What else is there to live for?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“To think of childhood gave her a funny queasy feeling, because it had been real life once and now it was something else. The old people had died, the babies had grown old.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person's sense of self permanently.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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