there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and … - Nicole Krauss

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Daughter of heaven and earth, coy Spring, With sudden passion languishing, Teaching barren moors to smile, Painting pictures mile on mile, Holds a cup of cowslip wreaths Whence a smokeless incense breathes.

Nicole Krauss

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

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There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

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I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

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The fact that you got a little happier today doesn't change the fact that you also became a little sadder. Every day you become a little more of both, which means that right now, at this exact moment, you're the happiest and saddest you've ever been in your whole life.

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