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“the laws work for those who fear them, not for those who violate them.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“As for infidelities, he said, if you don’t find out about them at the right moment they’re of no use: when you’re in love you forgive everything. For infidelities to have their real impact some lovelessness has to develop first. And he went on like that, piling up painful remarks about the blindness of people in love.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Every intense relationship between human beings is full of traps, and if you want it to endure you have to learn to avoid them.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
― The Story of the Lost Child
“The depressed don’t write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place.”
“Isn’t that how it is?”
No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it’s only for a very brief time. Otherwise they’re useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
“Isn’t that how it is?”
No, words rarely go to the right place, and if they do, it’s only for a very brief time. Otherwise they’re useful for speaking nonsense, as now. Or for pretending that everything is under control.”
― The Story of the Lost Child
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