Trust by Hernan Diaz

~Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats.~

~[H]e was suspicious of the American notion of freedom, which he viewed as a strict synonym of conformism or, even worse, the mere possibility of choosing between different versions of the same product.~

~He would always say that every dollar bill had been printed on paper ripped of a slave’s bill of sale.~

~From a long way off I watched the pen writing.~

~Nothing more private than pain. It can only involve one.
But who?
Who is “I” in “hurt”? The one who inflicts the pain or the one who suffers it?
And does “hurt” refer to the inflicting or the suffering?

~God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.~

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