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You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keep...more

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Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and ...more

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. . . we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day....more

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Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

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..if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was ahurricane.

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He was gone and did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we had to forgive to...more

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... that I forgave him, and that she forgave us, and that we have to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to l...more

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That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people would want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals...more

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All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a w...more

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Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says.The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of dep...more

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The longer I do my job the more I realize that humans lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, and so hard for us to show an...more

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Jesus, why would he hook up with Becca?" "Well, she's not known for her personality or generosity of spirit, so it's probably because she's hot." "She...more

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What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows," she says.

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But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else. I could nev...more

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When you say nasty things about people, you should never say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honestly take those back, you know? I m...more