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The pain of losing something precious - be it happiness or material wealth – can be forgotten over time. But our missed opportunities never leave us, and every time they come back to haunt us, we ache. Or perhaps what haunts us is that nagging thought that things might have turned out differently. Because without that thought, we would put it down to fate and accept it.
— Aug 30, 2025 04:01AM
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If a person truly has the ability to love, then he can never monopolize his beloved. And neither can his beloved monopolize him. The more he spreads his love, the more he adores his one and only true love. When love spreads, it does not diminish.
— Aug 29, 2025 09:39AM
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People somehow manage to accustom themselves to what they first think insufferable.
— Aug 10, 2025 06:19AM
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Even the most wretched and simple-minded man could be a surprise, even a fool could have a soul whose torments were a constant source of amazement.Why do we assume that it is the easiest thing in the world to know and judge another?Why,when we are reluctant even to describe a wedge of cheese we are seeing for the first time,do we draw our final conclusions from our first encounters with people, &happily dismiss them?
— Aug 04, 2025 03:01AM
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Our longings, our disappointments, our fits of rage - we succumb to them when something unexpected happens to us, something that seems to make no sense. Is it even possible to shock a man who is ready for anything, and who knows exactly what to expect from anyone?
— Aug 03, 2025 03:01AM
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A dash of curiosity is all it takes to stumble upon treasures we never expected. We rarely seek that which we do not expect to find. Send a hero into a dragon's den, and his task is clear. It is a hero of another order who can summon up the courage to lower himself into a well of which we have no knowledge.
— Aug 01, 2025 08:53AM
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Aug 30, 2025 04:20AM
I am excited about your conclusions. I didn't read the book after having tried the first 20 pages. It was a little too dry, too short-breathed, too sketchy in my opinion. But I can be wrong.
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Alexander wrote: "I am excited about your conclusions. I didn't read the book after having tried the first 20 pages. It was a little too dry, too short-breathed, too sketchy in my opinion. But I can be wrong."Having had great expectations on this novel because of the rave reviews that popped up here for years, I have to admit I was rather disappointed, Alexander: where I was first enthralled by some of the reflections of the narrator in the beginning, which were suggesting profundity of thought and psychological depth to follow, the love story at the core of the novel left me rather indifferent (likely because I read it at a 'wrong' time). But I am clearly in the minority...although it speaks volumes that you threw the towel as well (I don't think you often decide to put a book aside...)
