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To understand everything is to love nothing.

He wants his children to have an old life and a new life, a life that is indivisible from all lives past, that grows from them, exceeds them, and another that is original, pure, free, that is beyond the prejudice which protects us, the habit which gives us shape. He wants them to know both degradation and sainthood, the one without humiliation, the other without ignorance. He is preparing them for this voyage.

I’ve just started it and I can already tell it’s going to make me fall in love with writing again.

"Let's have a brandy," he said. He called to the waitress. "Rémy Martin. Zwei. Rémy Martin is good," he advised Nedra. "Martell is good, but I know Martell. I mean personally. He's rich enough as it is."
LOL

This is truly the closest thing to a fig (the fruit) a book could be

[W]e're in the grocery store of life.
We sit here at night, we eat, we pay bills.