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Reading for the 3rd time
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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
― 1984
― 1984
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“Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
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“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― 1984
― 1984
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“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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