"Through [my friends] I discovered what it was……" — Lucy Grealy
"Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it...which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be..."
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Lucy Grealy
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17 Quotes by Lucy Grealy
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without…
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever,…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty…
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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