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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility:

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I think that we’re always drawn – particularly sophisticated people – are always drawn to the idea of simplicity.
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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