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I sometimes see a shortcoming in myself, how little patience or understanding I have for many people in the way they act. I am able to see the fragility in some, but I only have so much time to wade through their manipulations and traps and draining behaviour. Some people think I'm heartless in leaving others to suffer their own selves. ↗

— Bill Callahan

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If you don't appreciate her, you don't deserve her. ↗

— Robert Tew

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The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union, achieved when the egocentric model of dualistic thinking is no longer dominant, we are not united with it, nor am I united with you, but we all just are. The movement from object to subject, as described in both Eastern meditation and modern psychotherapy, is training for this union, but its perception usually comes as a surprise, even when this shift is well under way. It is a kind of grace. The emphasis on sexual relations in the tantric teachings make it clear that the ecstatic surprise of orgasm is the best approximation of this grace. ↗

— Mark Epstein

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And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured. ↗

— E.M. Forster

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Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling ↗

— John Wyndham

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That's because we were together for two years and she led me on a treacherous journey through bitchy, across frigid, and into the land of cheating psycho. I barely escaped with my life. It required a week of solid moping just so my balls could grow back. ↗

— S.E. Culpepper

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I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

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You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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