

“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 to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”
― Freedom
― Freedom

“Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections

“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 why love, as I understand it, is always specific. Trying to love all of humanity may be a worthy endeavor, but, in a funny way, it keeps the focus on the self, on the self’s own moral or spiritual well-being. Whereas, to love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.”
― Farther Away
― Farther Away

“Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.”
― The Corrections
― The Corrections
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