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- He had a happy canine way of seeking approval without seeming insecure. Approval
- Robin turned and looked straight into her. "What's life for?" "I don't know." "I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning. Inspirational
- Without privacy there was no point in being an individual. Individual
- I admire your capacity for admiring. Admire
- The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it,… Achieved
- THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value… Anybody
- But she was seventeen now and not actually dumb. She knew that you could love somebody more than anything and still not love the person… Actually Dumb
- Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. Dependence
- Patty knew, in her heart, that he was wrong in his impression of her. And the mistake she went to go on to make, the… Along
- Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had… Been
- He and his wife loved each other and brought each other daily pain. Everything else he was doing in his life, even his longing for… Amounted
- This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing… Anyone
- But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special. Beings
- There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness. All
- Use well thy freedom. Freedom
- I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not… Been
- What he'd never understood about men in his position, in all the books he'd read and movies he'd seen about them, was clearer to him… All
- He couldn't figure out if she was immensely well adjusted or seriously messed up. Adjusted
- Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control… All
- And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that… Absolutely
- [T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious… Akin
- Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for its manipulability in the way we might with… Actual
- Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is… All
- Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Best
- Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest. Elective
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