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The only other piece of advice she gave me on the subject was to tell me that because I loved garlic so much I had better marry an Italian. “Or someone, dear, who likes garlic as much as you do.”
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“I did not understand that it was a fall, I simply began giving myself to those half pleasures, half needs, which are proper, as had been suggested to me, to a certain age, I began giving myself to depravity as I had begun to drink and smoke.”
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
― The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories
“he’s flighty, he dithers, he’s cruel, he’s an egotist, he has base habits, but you should appreciate him, first of all, if only because there are those who are far worse.”
― Demons
― Demons
“He was experiencing minutes as light as minuets, minutes composed of anxiety and tenderness.”
― Our Lady of the Flowers
― Our Lady of the Flowers
“I’m realizing that so much of my existence was focused on outrunning what seemed to be a preordained fate of loneliness. Even on that first date with Gus, which ended up being genuinely amazing, I still couldn’t fully relax. I was still running.”
― Just by Looking at Him
― Just by Looking at Him
“I’ve rarely met a more limp woman, and besides, her legs are swollen, and besides, she is kind.”
― Demons
― Demons
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