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“The books in that shop can be summoned in an instant to our screens, but oh, to have wandered the aisles, thrilled to be riding the crest of newness, interest and abundance.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“I’d like to shout down through a hole in the ceiling of time and advise the people of a hundred years ago: If you want your secrets kept, whisper them into the ear of your dearest, most trusted friend. Do not trust the keyboard and screen. If you do, we’ll know everything.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“The mind, as I had already noted, was our most erotic feature.”
― What We Can Know
― What We Can Know
“As long as no one knows about it, it's like it isn't really happening.
It's like it exists in the same way that his fantasies exist, as something he's just imagining.
That's how it seems to him sometimes.”
― Flesh
It's like it exists in the same way that his fantasies exist, as something he's just imagining.
That's how it seems to him sometimes.”
― Flesh
“He has this feeling, with women, that it’s hard to have an experience that feels entirely new, that doesn’t feel like something that has already happened, and will probably happen again in some very similar way, so that it never feels like all that much is at stake. There’s often this feeling of—Yes, I like you, but I like other people as well. It’s not even that I like them more. It’s just that I don’t like them less. So to be with any one person feels like an arbitrary thing, and that arbitrary feeling has started to undermine any lingering sense that there might be a particular person that he’s somehow meant to be with.”
― Flesh
― Flesh
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