But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning … - Jed Rubenfeld

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Jed Rubenfeld

But there's the rub. The present can never deliver one thing: meaning. The way of happiness and meaning are not the same. To find happiness, a man need only live in the moment; he need only live for the moment. But if he wants meaning--the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life--a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain. Thus nature dangles happiness and meaning before us all, insisting only that we choose between them.

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If he wants meaning-the meaning of his dreams, his secrets, his life-a man must reinhabit his past, however dark, and live for the future, however uncertain.

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Unhappiness is caused when we cannot let go of our memories.

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A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

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Disgust is so reassuring; it feels like a moral proof.

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What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.

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