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“Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?” quote by Edward St. Aubyn — Download Open image

““Is there ever anything to get unduly worried about,' Peter couldn't help asking, 'when there are so many things to worry about duly?””

Edward St. Aubyn

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“If you were madly in love, you’d want me to win,’ said Katherine. “‘I’m not sure that’s true,’ said Sam. ‘I think love is about equality: both of us equally happy with either result. One-sided self-sacrifice is only enabling someone else’s egoism. Altruists always end up riddled with resentment, or if they make that last superhuman effort, with spiritual pride.’…

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“If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal.”

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“But then neither revenge nor forgiveness change what happened. They’re sideshows, of which forgiveness is the less attractive because it represents a collaboration with…

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“People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.”

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“But that, after all, was the point of romantic folly. If it hadn’t all gone horribly wrong, it wouldn’t have been the real thing.”

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