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“the painful truth that, no matter how deliberately we tend to our personal lives and public personas, the person we think we are is fundamentally vulnerable to sources outside of our control.”

“Then she said: Anyone I know? Oh just the same girl I’ve been in love with all along. Now and then she likes to toy with my feelings to make sure I’m still interested. Heartless woman, she said. I’m a terrible fool about her, really.”

“I tell myself that I want o live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven’t arisen. But what if that’s not true? What if I’m the one who can’t let myself be happy?”